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The Employment Relationship

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The Value of Wellness in the Workplace

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Employment relations deal essentially with people who, because of their mutual involvement in the working environment , have been placed in a specific relationship with one another. The employment relationship is not only the focus of labour relations on the specific employee–employer relationship, but it also forms the basis of human resource management . Therefore, employment relations are a combination of labour relations management and human resource management, within the individual relationship between the employee and employer. Labour relations management deals with decision-making and behaviour regarding aspects such as trade unions and other forms of worker representation and participation . The desire on the part of both management and employees to exert control is an 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 regulations very positively is investigated.

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The aim of this chapter is to investigate the employment relationship as part of the EOR from a South African context.

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Linde, B. (2015). The Employment Relationship. In: The Value of Wellness in the Workplace. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-402-3_3

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