statement---’Conflict is inherent within the employment relationship’ with reference to the Unitarist‚ Pluralist and Marxist perspective. Firstly‚ I will give the definitions of employment relations‚ industrial conflict the three main conflict frames of reference in employment relations. Then I will explain the conflict in the three perspectives individually. Lastly‚ I will make a simple comparison about the three perspectives. Dunlop states that the industrial relations system is seen to be ’comprised of
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Are you a unitarist‚ a pluralist or a radical/ Marxist? As you read the Balnave chapter‚ you may have become aware of your own‚ sometimes implicit‚ views about employment relations and you may have been identifying mainly with one particular frame of reference. This sort of self-awareness of our own particular ideological position is an important part of coming to terms with the frames of reference. The following activity is designed to develop your self-awareness of your own position
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Describe how the Unitarist and Pluralist approaches to conflict would explain the industrial action taken by the Construction Forestry and Mining Employees Union in forming the Barangaroo picket line. Introduction: This essay will discuss the two different management approaches towards to the recent industrial action taken against Lend Lease and identify what differentiate the two approaches. The second part of the essay will provide an argument of how applying these approaches from the upper
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the book Labour Relations in the Global Fast Food Industry (Royle & Towers 2002) and its key findings the product of the authors’ ideological frame of reference? Or is it the product of genuine‚ objective research? Introduction Employment relations is the study of all aspect of work and the interaction between the management and the employees or the employee’s representative such as the Union (Ackers and Wilkinson‚ 2005). The underlying beliefs of employment or labour relations are often implicit
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explaining the state of industrial conflict in Singapore presently. An employment relation is the relationship between managers and employees in an organisation which is usually informal – for example‚ between supervisors and subordinates. At the industrial level‚ the relationship between the management of an organisation and its union is more formal and referred as industrial relation which is a subset of employment relations (Tan‚ 2007). Industrial conflict is the total range of behaviour and
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International Employment Relations Review‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 2‚ 2002 49 WHAT IS EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS? Peter Slade University of the Sunshine Coast This article examines the question as to whether or not a new paradigm of employment relations is emerging. In doing so‚ it examines the nature of ideologies‚ and argues that the specific adoption of pluralism and the joining of Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management as a prerequisite to the evolution of a new field of enquiry is misplaced. It
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Review Questions Topic 2: The Nature of the Employment Relationship 1. Why is the employment relationship interdependent? In order to tap the creative and productive powers of workers‚ employers cannot treat them as any other market commodity. Employees can always bargain with their compliance‚ commitment and effort. Hence‚ to some extent‚ employers must seek a cooperative relationship with their workers in order to gain their consent to managerial directives. Employees‚ on the other hand‚ are also
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Employee relations may be defined as those policies and practices which are concerned with the management and regulation of relationships between the organisation‚ the individual staff member‚ and groups of staff within the working environment. The objective of the policies and practices are to create • An effective mechanism for communication and participation • A safe and secure work environment • Commitment for the employer and motivation for the employees Employment relationships are built
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in some situations. It helps management and employees to understand more about the workplace issues and other factors that could affect a business. Moreover‚ this could help to build up trust between employees and managers and therefore workplace relations could be improved. In the UK workplace‚ there are forms of employee representation which are trade union‚ non-trade union and indirect representative participation. As for the UK is ‘lightly regulated’ in employee representation is being concerned
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Discuss a historical turning point in New Zealand Employment Relations. “Parliament‚ in the last 100 years or so‚ has a lot to say about conditions of work and the relationship between employers and their employees” (Deeks & Rasmussen‚ 2006). There have been many industrial disputes regarding the arbitration system between 1894 and 1991 which has influenced changes to New Zealand Employment Relations. One of the many industrial disputes was the waterfront industrial dispute 1951. This dispute in
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