Employment relations in transition' contrasteert en vergelijkt de Anglo-Amerikaanse en de Rijnland tradities van de regelgeving van de werkgelegenheidsverhouding in een internationale context.  Voortbordurend op economie, sociologie en psychologie wordt er een theoretisch kader ontwikkeld, door zich op de interne dynamica van de werkgever-werknemer uitwisseling te concentreren en de externe dynamica uit te drukken in de institutionele en strategische verordening van deze uitwisseling. I nhoudsopgave Introduction Part 1 - Theory: the concept of the employment relationship 1. The roots of the concept of the employment relationship in the behavioural sciences 2. The employment relationship in the applied sciences 3. Regulating the employment relationship Part 2 - The changing nature of the employment relationship 4. Trends in employment relations 5. Practice: examples of individualised hr policies at company level 6. Practice: the employee's perception, the psychological contract Part 3 - The employment relationship and reform of collective bargaining 7. Trends in collective bargaining 8. Practice: examples of decentralisation of collective bargaining at company level 9. Practice: the employees' preferences, individual choice within the collective agreement Part 4 - Conclusion 10. The future of industrial relations and employment relations References Index About the author