Industrial relations is the term for all the complex interactions between employers and employees. How much workers are paid, the hours they work, their benefits and responsibilities all factor in, ...

The authors identify 10 core principles of industrial relations (IR) theory and policy, based on the writings of British IR founders Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb and U.S. IR founder John Commons.

The primary goals of labor-management relations are to create a productive, engaged workforce and to eliminate the perception that organized labor and management have a perpetually adversarial ...