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 & 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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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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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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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS By Fadhy Mtanga Industrial Relations is a branch of Social Science that studies the relationship that exists at the workplaces. Industrial Relations focus on the relationship between employers and their associations on one hand‚ and employees with their organizations on the other. Also‚ it is deals with the relationship between the workplaces and the government as the policy and law maker‚ hence the regulator of that relationship. Industrial Relations as the branch
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Employment Relations UNIT 2 EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS Objectives After going through this unit‚ you should be able to: l l explain the historical perspective of industrial relations in India; appreciate the impact of globalisation‚ technological changes‚ and other forces on industrial relations; identify the issues and challenges confronting industrial relations in India. l Structure 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Introduction Industrial Relations in India
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Who are the main actors in the industrial relations system and describe precisely what they do. Abstract Jamaica like the rest of the Caribbean islands had had a difficult formation. Because of the problems of incorporating this Caribbean Society there have been by and large certain problems which have manifested its people and relationship its economy‚ political and social structures. Jamaica labour relations are deeply rooted in the experiences of slavery and in the Plantation System.
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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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