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FOUR-DAY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND HUMAN RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
February 5th 8th, 2015
Submit Papers at battuirhrg2015@gmail.com Deadline: December 02, 2014
Keynote Speakers:
1. Prof. K. Viyyana Rao, Vice-Chancellor, Acharya Nagarjuna University.
2. Prof. M. Srimannarayana, Professor in XLRI University, Jamshedpur.
THEME OF THE SEMINAR
Within the framework of globalization, there are certain emergent issues that are not only becoming
recurrent, but are also coming to the fore in recent discourses that pertain to Industrial Relations.
Over the last decade there has been growing use of the term "globalization" to refer to a series of changes
in the international economy. As Wade (1996) notes, globalization is normally taken to refer to a set of qualitative
changes in the international economy which are associated with increases in international trade in goods and
services, greater flows of foreign direct investment and the growth in international financial transactions since the
late 1960s. It is on this note that the present paper, within the purview of the three principal actors of Industrial
Relations (IR), sets out to explore the IR emergent issues that are becoming recurrent in both developed and
developing economies and the consequences of their emergence on global IR systems. In order to achieve this
objective, it begins with a discussion of globalization and the controversies about convergence and divergence of
industrial relations practices, it then attends to these emergent and recurrent issues, and then it concludes by
providing the common denominator that these issues bring to the field of industrial relations. The critical
perspective on the relationship between globalization and industrial relations can be termed the divergence or
industrialist approach. Industrialist analyses have stressed the importance of national level institutions in mediating
and refracting common economic pressures.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
We invite participants to present papers on the following Tracks
Track 1: Industrial Relations in the Era of Globalization
Track 2: Human Relations/Industrial Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility
Track 3: The growing role of Working Women in Industries
Track 4: Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining
Track 5: Employee Welfare, Social Security Schemes and Workers Participation
Track 6: Industrial Discipline, Disputes and Grievance Handling
Track 7: International Labour Legislation/Labour Laws
Track 8: NCL, ILO, WTO and Industrial Relations
Track 9: Interface with CEO/MD/GM of the Industries
Guidelines
Format: A4, 1.5 lines Space, 1" margin 4 sides, not more than 10 pages, 12 pt Times New Roman. Abstract and
Full Paper must be sent as a hard copy as well as a soft copy in CD in MS-Word. The soft copy of Abstracts along
with full papers can be send to the following e-mail address: battuirhrg2015@gmail.com
For any further queries please feel free to contact
Dr. Nagaraju Battu, Seminar Director Ph: 9440022859
Meet you at IRHRG-2015