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Nature of
Industrial Relations:
Traditional & Changing
Perspectives
Debi S. Saini
Professor & ChairpersonHRM Area
Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
System Model
Management of Personnel/People
(Systems, effectiveness, engagement, productivity)
The Roots of
Industrial Conflict
People Needs
High Earnings
Speed to Marketplace
Market Share
Product Quality
Customer Service
Customer Responsiveness
Low Costs
Efficiency/Productivity
Flexibility
Benchmarking
Responsive/Innovative
Future Oriented
Customer Satisfaction
People Needs
are Managed
differently in
Different Orgs.
IBM
Tata Steel
Ballarpur Industries
Hero MotoCorp
NDPL
Work-life balance
Flexibility
Empowerment
Welfare facilities
Social security
Learning Atmosphere
Respect for their Diversity
Growth opportunities
Recognition/ belonging
Participation/ Involvement
Management style
Positive or Negative
Meaning of Work
Positive (win-win)
Negative (loselose)
Work is interesting
Sheer Drudgery/unpleasant
A way to
Just a means
kill time
to living
Can we think of
some basic approaches to
managing
employer-employee relations?
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How do we go about
understanding these issues?
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Believes
Won Safety & Environt. 2003 award (SIGA given to 5 cos. worldwide)
Kaizen Training: 2 hrs per month
Participation, paternalism
(kin employment),
family focus
Ethical working
CSR creates a sense of pride
in employees
Understanding
Employee Relations
& related Terms?
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Employees as collective
(Class solidarity operates here i.e. Unions)
in both situations
work]
ER: is ongoing
individualized workers
through HR
LR (labour Relations)
focuses exclusively on
2.
3.
4.
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Employee Relations
Employee
Partnership
Communication
& Employee
Involvement
Proactive
Efforts
Employee
Rights/fairness/
Grievance mgt.
Employee
Discipline
Unionization
Poor Performance
Employee Absenteeism
Employee dissatisfaction & Turnover
Litigation
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What do you
think is meant by
Industrial Relations?
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is the process of
rule making
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Industrial relations is
the art of living together
for purposes of production
Important
Some
regulation
is needed
in
all relations;
State
determines
the regulatory
framework
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Is Globalization Syndrome
linked to
Industrial Relations: How?
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movement
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Unions
Employer associations
State/Labour Bureaucracy
ILCILO
Tribunal/Labour Court
Labour law
Higher judiciary
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Political Science
Management
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Traditional Problems/Issues in IR
1. Job satisfaction:
2. Negotiating Wage/salary/VRS/bonus/benefits
3. Alienation & discontent
4. Grievance management
5. Trade union, strikes, lockouts
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Traditional Problems in IR
6. Industrial dispute settlement
7. Indiscipline, absenteeism & mobility
8. Labour Laws
9. Labour welfare/QWL
10. Communication
11. Joint consultation, participation, involvement
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Frames of Reference
in Industrial Relations
& New Issues in IR
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Pluralism
1. Assumptions about Interests
Mgrs. & employees have: different objectives
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Capitalism will collapse due to its inherent contradictions
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contd
Law
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How do we Conceptualize
the Different Workings of
IR System?
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III. Ambivalent
Pluralism
(Most unionized cos.
Maruti-Suzuki Ltd.)
(Tata Steel/NDPL)
IV. Repressive
Pluralism
(Simran Foods Ltd.)
V. Coercive
Unitarism
(Or manoeuvred
unitarism through law,
shenanigans,
paternalism, collusion
with bureaucracy)
(New Unitarism)
(Most Indian SMEs,
Flaxo Exports)
IR is a system
of rule-making
institutions, procedures
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