Management of Industrial Relations
University of the South Pacific
MG204: Management of Industrial
Relations
Assignment: 1
**Lautoka Campus**
Industrial relations is seen as the most subtle and complicated crisis of current industrial society. It is impossible for any organization to have harmonious working environment unless and until there is a heedful relationship and cooperation with labors. Hence, it is vital for all to have appropriate interest in generating fine relations between the two actors known as employers and employees. This essay will elaborate on the controversial issues such as, strike and absenteeism followed by how these issues affects the actors mainly employer, employee and entire population either directly or indirectly in their daily lives and whether does this issues have positive or negative impact on them.
To begin with, industrial relation is considered to be a diverse field which is viewed in different perspectives by three distinctive schools where in Unitary school, industrial relations see employer-employee relationships essentially harmonious and conflict is seen as the intrusion, Pluralist perspective accepts expected conflicts and variety of groups will compete with divergent interests, objectives and aspirations and through Marxist viewpoint there is a perpetual conflict between the two actors because of the unfair distribution of wealth and power between them. All these diverse nature portrayed by each school has some controversial issues that is related with industrial relations thus, affecting everybody either directly or indirectly.
Moving on, the controversial issues are mainly the industrial conflicts in an organization and the most popular one is “strike’ which is a strong weapon utilized by labor alliance or trade unions in regards to getting their certain demands to be fulfilled. Generally, group of workers relinquish the production process and brings up pressure on the employer in order to get their demands accepted. The most obvious effect
MG204: Management of Industrial
Relations
Assignment: 1
**Lautoka Campus**
Industrial relations is seen as the most subtle and complicated crisis of current industrial society. It is impossible for any organization to have harmonious working environment unless and until there is a heedful relationship and cooperation with labors. Hence, it is vital for all to have appropriate interest in generating fine relations between the two actors known as employers and employees. This essay will elaborate on the controversial issues such as, strike and absenteeism followed by how these issues affects the actors mainly employer, employee and entire population either directly or indirectly in their daily lives and whether does this issues have positive or negative impact on them.
To begin with, industrial relation is considered to be a diverse field which is viewed in different perspectives by three distinctive schools where in Unitary school, industrial relations see employer-employee relationships essentially harmonious and conflict is seen as the intrusion, Pluralist perspective accepts expected conflicts and variety of groups will compete with divergent interests, objectives and aspirations and through Marxist viewpoint there is a perpetual conflict between the two actors because of the unfair distribution of wealth and power between them. All these diverse nature portrayed by each school has some controversial issues that is related with industrial relations thus, affecting everybody either directly or indirectly.
Moving on, the controversial issues are mainly the industrial conflicts in an organization and the most popular one is “strike’ which is a strong weapon utilized by labor alliance or trade unions in regards to getting their certain demands to be fulfilled. Generally, group of workers relinquish the production process and brings up pressure on the employer in order to get their demands accepted. The most obvious effect
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