The paper examines the meaning of work in Israel in the past several decades, as well as its current dominant work values. It portrays the state of its employment/industrial relations system in association with the major shifts that have taken place in Israeli society in recent years. Finally, it focuses on current strategic human resources management in Israel as well as some future prospects.
Employment relations and human resource management take place at the workplace. They are closely related to employees' values and their meaning of work, hence, are influenced and affected by them. Therefore we believe that a short description of the current meaning of work in Israel may allow a better understanding of its employment relations and strategic human resources management.