DEFINITION Industrial relations is a set of phenomena operating both within and outside the workplace‚ concerned with determining and regulating the employment relationship. Whether it is social‚ legal‚ political or economic. APPROACHES TO INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS There is no one ‘right’ approach; each emphasizes a particular aspect of industrial relations and taken together they can provide a frame work for analyzing and understanding the diversity and complexity of industrial relations (e.g. the
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dominant perspectives in industrial relations. These perspectives are unitary perspective‚ pluralist perspective and Marxist perspective as Dzimbiri (2008) suggests. The essay discusses each perspective in detail and further analyzes the one which provide an explanation of the employment relations in the modern work organizations. Having done that the essay finally gives a conclusion. It has to be mentioned that in the beginning‚ the essay starts by defining the term ‘Industrial Relations’. DEFINITIONS
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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PERSPECTIVES UNITARY THEORY Workplace “has one source of authority and one source of loyalty” (Fox 1996: p. 3) - Dunlop (1958) argues that in a unitary theory‚ work organizations are integrated institutions with workers and management working in harmony. - Thus no conflict thesis is a dubious integration. It thrives on assumptions that all workers identify not only with the aims of the enterprise but also with the operating methods (Seifert 1992)
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Teresa Liang English 2 Herbert Value in Exchange In “Offloading For Mrs. Schwartz” by George Saunders‚ the narrator lives in a society guarded by the commodification of human experiences in the pursuit of money. Situated across the mall from O My God‚ a vintage religious statuary store‚ the narrator owns a business selling holographic modules. Despite the economic consciousness displayed by the narrator’s community‚ the narrator chooses to reject his societal standard of wealth by being economically
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Marxist Perspective of the State Major Raj Kamal Dixit Associate Professor & Head‚ P.G.Deptt. of Pol.Sc.‚ P.C.Bagla College‚ Hathras. Uttar Pradesh (India) Commonly regarded as the class theory of the State is basically a perspective‚ which has evolved from the writings of Karl Marx & Freiderick Engels. Marx did not offer the theoretical analysis of the State as such. His work on the State comprises a fragmented series of philosophical reflections‚ contemporary history‚ journalism and incidental
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Industrial Relations: Ideological Perspectives By Femi Aborisade Centre for Labour Studies & The Polytechnic‚ Ibadan aborisadefemi@gmail.com INTRODUCTION This paper identifies the key theories in industrial relations and draws out their implications on the concern for achieving ‘basic needs for all’. The following theories are examined: the political theories of Unitarism and Pluralism; the economistic theory; the democratic and political theory; the moral and ethical theory‚ and the
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bray_Chapter 01 11/8/04 3:01 PM Page ii Chapter 1 THE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Chapter 2 THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK AND EMPLOYMENT bray_Chapter 01 11/8/04 3:01 PM Page 1 part one the n a t u re and c o n t e x t of industrial re l a t i o n s bray_Chapter 01 11/8/04 3:01 PM Page 2 bray_Chapter 01 11/8/04 3:01 PM Page 3 chapter one the study of industrial relations learning objectives After reading this chapter you should be able
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Industrial Relations & Labour Policies (Concept‚ Origin‚ Theories & Strategies) Submitted To :- Submitted By :- Dr. Laxmi Amandeep Kaur Anshul Chhabra Arjita Malik Shivendu Sharma Industrial Relations & Labour Policies Industrial relations is a discipline that concerns itself with the study of the relationship between employers and employees at an organization‚ industry or a nation level. It also concerns itself with the two way interaction
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Industrial Relations Essay The role of the government on industrial relations is very important as it sets the legal framework that industrial relations operates in. Appropriate industrial relations legislation should recognize the requirements of both employers and employee’s. Both the employee and the employer want to profit from each other but are also reliant on each other. This means that the equal bargaining power of employers and workers must be recognized (Peetz‚ David. 2006). Appropriate
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issues and problems associated with industrial relations‚ it is desirable to study its various evolutionary phases. Practically speaking‚ the growth of industrial relations in India is in no way different from that of other parts of the globe. The various stages of industrial relations progressed from primitive stage to factory or industrial capitalism stage. The emergence of tripartite consultative system and voluntary and statutory approach to industrial relations‚ immensely contributed to the
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