The Employment Relationship

Employment relations deal essentially with people who, because of their mutual involvementMutual involvement in the working environmentWorking environment , have been placed in a specific relationship with one another. The employmentEmployment relationship is not only the focus of labour relations on the specific employee–employer relationship, but it also forms the basis of human resource managementHuman resource management . Therefore, employment relations are a combination of labour relations management and human resource management, within the individual relationshipIndividual relationship between the employee and employer. Labour relations management deals with decision-makingDecision-making and behaviour regarding aspects such as trade unions and other forms of workerEmployment worker representationEmployment representation and participationEmployment participation . The desire on the part of both management and employees to exert control is an inherentCharacteristics inherent characteristic of the employment relationship. A model based on the assumption that there should be clarity about the contents and reasons for the regulations and the employee must trust the reason for and the application of the regulations for an employee to experience employment regulationsEmployment regulations very positively is investigated.