ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the explanation of different management approaches to deal with employee relations and their application to labor relations management in China. It discusses several theories that link Industrial relations with strategic human resource management (SHRM) and presents some discourses on its applicability in the context of China. The chapter deals with some points for future research direction for the important area of managing Human Relations, ethics and labor relations in the context of companies operating inside China and Chinese companies operating globally. It outlines several theory development paths towards SHRM and labor relations management in the western context as well as their applications to the China context. The pluralists hold the view that an organization is made of a divergent group of people, inevitably leading to conflicts of interests and disagreements over the distribution of profits and benefits.
