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Industrial Relations
Santanu Sarkar, PhD
XLRI Jamshedpur
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Industrial Relations – Nature and Scope
• • • • • • Whole field of employer – employee relationship Concerned with approaches regarding planning and execution of activities that impact the well-being of employees and the organization A discipline pertaining to procedures, practices, rules, and regulations governing employment relationship More an applied field concerned with practice and training of practitioners than with theory and measurement Inter-disciplinary in content and draws from various social sciences Focus on
– Employer-employee relations – Union-Management relations – Union-member relations – Inter-personal and Inter-group relations – Inter-union relations
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Industrial Relations Systems
• Players:
– Employer / Association – Employees / Workers / Trade Union – Government / State
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Tools:
– – – – – Labour legislations – TUA, IE(SO)A, IDA Labour administration – LComm Bipartism – WC, JMC Voluntary arbitration Industrial adjudication – LC, IT, HC, SC
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Problems:
– Issues in IR
• • • • • • • Union-management relation Employee involvement Collective bargaining Conflict resolution Direct action Grievance redressal Enforcement of discipline 3
Approaches to Industrial Relations
Unitary perspective
Org. • Integrated grp of people • Single authority / loyalty structure & common values, interests & objs shared by all members of org. • System is in basic harmony & Conflict : unnecessary & exception – not ‘them & us’ Mgmt.’s prerogative – • Legitimate, rational & accepted & opposition to it is irrational & exceptional • Coercion – a legitimate use of managerial power including law as use of law is again a power of management • Represents a mgmt. ideology & subconscious foundation of – ‘right to manage’ the issues of negotiation and issues for consulting only. Conflict – • Frictional rather than structural & caused by clashes of non-structural attributes like clashes...