Description
Completely updated and revised in light of Ireland’s changing economic conditions.
Includes new Employment Legislation and Trade Union Law Amendments.
Up-to-date treatment of partnership developments.
Details of institutional arrangements related to the Labour Relations Commission, the Rights Commissioners, the Labour Court, Employment Appeals Tribunal, and Office of Director of Equality Investigations – Equality Tribunal.
Draws extensively on new Irish data and cases, and uses examples from Irish organisations throughout.
New significant areas covered are: - Extensive use of synoptic case studies - Conflict and strikes - Negotiations - Collective and Individual Labour Law - Industry and Employment Law - Partnership - Industrial democracy - Direct and indirect employee participation
Written for students taking Industrial Relations and HRM at third level and those taking courses leading to a membership of the Institute of Personnel and Development.
Web support is provided for students with links to relevant government sites as well as lists of sites students may need to access, e.g. appeals court. Multiple-choice self-test questions are also provided.
Web support is provided to lecturers in the form of PowerPoint slides, additional case studies with guidelines, and exam questions relating to each chapter.

Author Biography
Joseph Wallace is Head of the Department of Personnel & Employment Relations at the University of Limerick.
Patrick Gunnigle is Professor of Business Studies at the University of Limerick. He is co-author of Personnel Management in Ireland, Personnel and Human Resource Management and Principles of Organisational Behaviour.
Gerard McMahon is Consultant and lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents
1. Industrial Relations: a Contextual and Theoretical Overview
2. Individual Employment
3. Collective Industrial Relations Law
4. Institutional Framework of Industrial Relations
5. Trade Unions
6. Employer Associations
7. The Nature of Industrial Action
8. Strikes
9. Collective Bargaining
10. Negotiations
11. Employee Involvement and Participation
12. Partnership and Other Developments in Collective Workplace Industrial
Relations
13. The Process of Collective Bargaining in Ireland
14. Managing Industrial Relations: Strategy, Human Resource Management and
Industrial Relations
15. Management Styles in Industrial Relations