From Industrial Relations to Employment Relations with Focus on Employee Relations

Identifying the features of the two concepts “industrial relations” and “employment relationship” cannot be achieved until after a prior presentation of their meanings and of the context in which the term “employment relationship” has made its presence felt in the literature. We aim to achieve this distinction because in some works of contemporary authors, the concept of “industrial relations” finds further use. The main purpose of this paper is to achieve a separation of the two concepts and to identify the areas of their intermission. Keywords: industrial relations; employment relations, human resource management; union; wages; conflict