Within theframework of globalization, there are certain emergent issues that are not only
becoming recurrent, but are also coming to the fore in recent discourses that pertain to
industrial relations. Based on a review of very vast and current literature in this
academic field of study, this paper explores these issues by highlighting the various
controversies, challenges and promises that they pose for industrial relations practices in
the future. It concludes by specifying the import of the convergence theory in creating a
common denominator that characterizes almost all employment relationships worldwide
