Industrial relations are relation between employee and employer in their day-to day work. Hence, it is continuous relationship.
a)Relationship among employees, between employees and their supervisors or managers.
b)Collective relations between trade unions and management. It is called union-management relations.
c)Collective relations among trade unions, employers’ associations and government.
Scott, Clothier and Spriegal remarked that industrial relations has to attain the maximum individual development, desirable working relationships between management and employees and effective moulding of human resources. They have also asserted that either industrial relations or personnel administration is primarily concerned with all functions relating man effectively to his environment.