About Employee Relations: The International Journal

Aims and scope

Embedded understanding is key to merging organisational, management and employee needs to achieve optimum performance, commitment and effectiveness in managing people. International issues are covered in all areas of HR, employment and industrial relations. A stringent double-blind review of each paper is undertaken to ensure its relevance and validity. Employee Relations continuously receives, and welcomes, global authorship.

Over the course of its history Employee Relations has developed a reputation for publishing articles by the world’s leading academic thinkers on HRM, employment and industrial relations. It has also successfully combined this heritage with providing an accessible, rigorously assessed platform for early-career research. Its international scope and focus on contemporary employment issues within their institutional and national contexts is seen through individual articles and in the highly acclaimed Special Issues which facilitate more detailed treatment of prominent challenges and debates within the field of work and employment.

Coverage

  • HRM
  • Employment/industrial relations management and reform
  • Communication, participation and involvement
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion in organisations
  • Health, safety and well-being in the workplace
  • Industrial relations and employment protection law
  • Management of performance and rewards
  • Organisational change and people
  • Succession planning and the management of talent
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Job quality and decent work
  • Social media and the workplace
  • HR analytics, data and metrics

Topicality

Today's turbulent business environment makes increasing demands on managers and workforces, as competitive standards rise and expectations of individuals increase. Understanding the decisions, attitudes and behaviours of the key stakeholders in the employment relationship within the national and international contexts in which they operate is crucial to responding positively to this ever-changing landscape.

Key benefits

The journal addresses key issues through authoritative, refereed papers by distinguished international academics and practitioners, Internet site critiques and publications. It suggests alternative strategies for improving working conditions and developing constructive relationships between managers and the workforce.