LSC

London School of Commerce

Managing Human Capital

MBA Semester -1

Group-D

Submitted by: Submitted to:

Parminder Bindra Rajinder Kumar

Student ID: 0679 GGMH 0609 (Lecturer)

 Table of Contents

Introduction

Definition of HRM

Steps of HRM

Definition Boycotts and Lockouts

Examples of Boycotts and Lockouts

Deadlocks towards settlement

Definition of Strike

Examples of Strike

Conclusion

References

Bibliography
Introduction

An issue occurs when the parties aren’t able to do settlement. Then sometimes a strike

occurs, boycotts and lockouts are two other anti-impasse weapons sometimes used by

management and labor. Strike involves such steps as shutting the companies, contracting

work, replacing the employees.

Definition of HRM

“HRM refer to those activities undertaken by an organization to effectively utilize its human

resources. These activities includes at least-Human resourcing planning, Staffing,

performance management, training & development, compensation & industrial relation”

Steps of HRM

• There are so many steps need to be taken by HRM department to avoid (boycott

lockout and strikes).here are some important steps in order to avoid these weapons.

• To enhance if possible, guarantee individual security against threats that might result

from market flectional technological changes or management decisions.

• To influence power relation I social relation in ways that favor and does not threaten

union gains and goals .To create mechanism to guard against use of arbitrary and

practices in work place.

• Strategically located union members in order to provide the growth of union

members.
 • Eliminates each company fear and being undercut by competition if allow higher

wages.

• Importance of jobs held by union members significantly affects union power.

• Process of training union of organization to apply for jobs at company and once to

work unionize.

• Target weak manager departments as way to appeal to dissatisfied employees.

'Hard' HRM focuses on the resource side of human resources. It emphasizes costs in the form
of ‘headcount’s and places control firmly in the hands of management. Their role is to
manage numbers effectively, keeping the workforce closely matched with requirements in
terms of both bodies and behaviour. 'Soft' HRM, on the other hand, stresses the 'human'
aspects of HRM. Its concerns are with communication and motivation. People are led rather
than managed. They are involved in determining and realizing strategic objectives.

Boycotts and Lockouts

Initially we have to understand the terms boycotts and lockouts.

A lockout is completely opposite to strike, in which when an employer prevents employees

from working. This is different from all strikes, in which employees refuses to work and

Boycott is a form of consumer behavior involving the law of voluntarily abstaining from

using, buying, with an organization, individual as an expression of protest.

Examples of Boycott

Locked out workers call a one -day boycott

In the sun media corporation the workers locked out at le journal de Quebec in an attempt to
entice their employer back to the table. Newspaper based in Quebec City is calling on Quebec
City reader to boycott the paper for one day on June 21, 2007. This is the third time they
locked out from last April, the printers and the paper's journalists contacted the conciliator to
re-boot negotiation. Quebecor negotiators rejected the employees in attempt to resume
negotiations. Basically all of Quebecor’s original concession dating from dec2006 Remain on
table. Journal de Quebec background the offices and the editorial staff were lockout on April
22, 2007.The printer took 97% vote and joined their colleagues by refusing to work during
the lockout none of the workers have taken a strike vote before lockout. Employees started
publishing their own free publication five days per week since April 24, 2007
MediaMatinQuebec a free paper is started publishing for promoting information about the
lockout to Quebec City citizens. There has been never a workplace and work stoppage
conflict between the employees and their employer.

Canadian Labor Declares National Boycott of Petro-Canada at CEP

Convention

The national convention of the communication, energy, paperwork (CEP) union of Canada
Announced a national boycott of petro Canada products.ken georgette the president of
Canada labor congress made the announcement on 28th October in Montreal. Boycott will
target all company's petro-filling stations and retail products. It comes 21 days before petro-
Canada one year lockout of 260 oil refinery workers. Negotiation leading up to 17th
November 2007 lockout,local175 rejected inferior company proposal that undercut the unions
national energy and chemical bargaining programmed for 2007/2008.petro Canada sub-par
proposals fell short of negotiation and agreed to provisions other than CEP’s. The 260 trade
unionist have been financially supported by the CEP's strike fund and rest supplemental funds
generated from energy and other trade union across Canada. Union adopted a new set of
policies in a resolution that addresses the pulp, paper and wood crisis in Canada, that effect
has seen massive job losses, with 20% in Canada.

National Basketball Association Boycott

In 1998 National Basketball Association players threatened to boycott the National

Broadcasting Corporation and the Turner Sports Cable Network because of the networks'
pro-management role in the current labor lockout by NBA owners. The two television
networks own exclusive rights to air NBA games throughout the 1998-99 seasons. The
players accuse the networks of conspiring with the owners and the league, which represents
management's class interests. The players charge that handing over the television revenue to
the league helps strengthen the owners' position during the lockout. The players are
discussing whether to refuse interviews with the networks before and after the games. These
interviews are mandatory. Negotiations to end the lockout have resumed. The owners want to
scale back the current 57-percent salary cap for each team. The players want to eventually
raise the salary cap to 63 percent. The issue will control the billions of dollars the NBA
players generate each year.

Examples of Lockouts

Assam and Darjeeling tea estate lockouts have led to malnutrition and starvation deaths

Roopacherra tea estate in south Assam has been under lockout for nearly few months after
executives abandoned it. After the death of three year-old-girl and two workers after the
death of the girl workers lockout and started picking and selling he leaves to other factories
for the survival. After a hunger strike some food was given by local administration by a large
group of women workers. Tea states has 1400 strong workers who were not been paid wages
since a lockout was declared on January 19. Reason cited management for the lockout was
flagrant violation. 24 hr general strike was called by workers in Calcutta and majorly tea
gardens were closed in the Dooars and Darjeeling.

National Hockey Association Lockout

In 2004-05 national hockey league was a lockout that resulted in a cancellation of what
would have been 88 session of national hockey league. In 1919, it was the first time the
Stanley cup was not awarded and the first time in North America the major professional
league has been cancelled, a complete session because of a labor dispute. The lockout lasted
310days starting sep16, 2004 the day after the collecting the barging agreement (CBA)
between the NHL and NHL players association. That resolves the lockout in 1994-95. The
negotiating teams reached an agreement on july13, 2005 and the lockout officially ended 9
days later on July 22 after both NHL owners and players ratify the CBA.

Dead Locks towards settlement

The major problems in employment and industrial relations are complex issues and there are
different factors affecting their presence. The relatively high volume of labor disputes in UK
may be attributed to the humidification of industrial relations, and to companies about which
there is a joint consensus among the bargaining parties. Both parties gives the framework for
a detailed mentioned of certain issues to different institutions within the dual system - i.e.,
collective bargaining (employers and unions associations) and workers' representation at
establishment level (works committee). Settlement under the legal obligation of "social
peace" and "trustful cooperation" lead to the neutralization of the workplace by moving
issues from the workplace to the industry level. A higher assumption of behavior and in the
end serves the purpose of containing and dampening issues.
Strikes
Strike action, can be called a strike, and is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of
employees to perform work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee complaints.
Strikes became important during the industrial revolution, when labor became important in
mines or factories. In western countries, as owners of factories have more political power
than workers. Majorly countries are legalized striking in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
Strikes are sometimes used by mass labor to put pressure on governments to change the
government policies. An example is the Gdansk Shipyard strike led by Lech Walesa. This
strike significant the struggle for political change in Poland, and was an important mobilized
effort that contributed to the fall of governments in Stalinist East Europe.

East London bus workers strike

A fight to defend hard-won conditions, bosses are imposing a pay freeze but for drivers the
main issue is long listing of others attack. The company wants to cut sick pay and holidays
along with that Sunday pay rates so the driver gets the same flat rate throughout the week,
don't include overtime pay, for example- a bus comes in late from being stuck in heavy traffic
then a cut back on pay for break these are also issues of bullying management. Tory mayor
Boris Johnson is cutting at least £5billion from TFL budget as well increasing the bus and
tube fares. During the east London strike it was announced that unite members- first centre
west, first capital east and hackney community transport have voted for strike action. These
private companies rake in profit at the expense of the workers and the travelling public. These
companies use excuse of recession to drive down wages and conditions further so they can
make even greater profit in future.

Royal mail

Majorly postal staff across UK is to launch a new series of strikes in a dispute over jobs and
pay threatens the biggest problem to royal mail deliveries in two years. Up to 25,000 postal
workers are taking part in the action which will continue till Monday the communication
worker union (CWU) said that this strikes will be national stoppage in 2007 and will affect
majorly cities and towns including London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Birmingham. Workers are
protesting against jobs, services and the cut being made at royal mail to pay.

Third Party Involvement

Define Third party

A third-party is an individual for whose benefit a contract is created even though that
person is a stranger to both the parties and the consideration. Such individual can
usually bring suit to enforce the promise made for his or her benefit.

Third party analysis of revised Google books settlement

The open book alliance released an extensive compilation of the third party analysis of the
revised settlement of Google books. The revised settlement is distinguishable from the
original settlement and far from the satisfying the concerns of department. Overall analysis I
think there will be plenty of issues were raised by objector for the settlement agreement
which was not addressed in this revision. Pamela Samuelson, law professor and director,
Berkley centre for law and technology is still not satisfied with the settlement of Google
books. National council did not see the amended settlement agreement before it become a
public issue. However we were able to review a list of proposed changes. After discussion we
concluded that union was not able to provide the requested endorsement before yesterday's
filing of amended agreement and application for preliminary approval we also concluded that
we would not be able to assist the author guild in finding an author to be a class
representative of Canadian authors. The revised settlement proposal does nothing to fix these
problems.

Conclusion

According to my opinion, I completely agree with the weapons (boycotts, lockouts and
strikes) used in an organization. Conflicts in employments and industrial relations are one of
the complex matters and are numerous factors affecting their performance, management and
breaking their regular official work of an organization. The industrial relations about which
there is a joint consensus among the bargaining parties, both provides the framework for a
detailed allocation of substantive issue. These issues and factors generally created violation in
the regular work of an organization.HRM is the department which handles these issues and
factors with management skills along with work experience, that’s the responsibility of HRM
department is to sort out these kind of problems occurs in an organization with rule of ethics
and justice.
References

• wordnetweb.princeton.edu/Perl/web
• http://cupe.ca/strikes/Lockedout_workers_ca
• http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2815-Canadian-Labour-Declares-National-
Boycott-of-Petro-Canada-at-CEP-
Conventionhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/2343698/Handling-Employee-Complaints-
and-Strikes

• http://libcom.org/news/india-tea-estate-lockouts-lead-starvation-deaths-
• http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8412

• http://www.openbookalliance.org/2009/11/third-party-analysis-of-revised-google-
books-settlement

• http://legal-dictonary.thefreedictionary.com/Third+Party

• http://209.85.229.132/search?
q=cache:dTsKTZSv_egJ:bc.inter.edu/facultad/ialvarado/BADM
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Bibliography
• wordnetweb.princeton.edu/Perl/web
• http://cupe.ca/strikes/Lockedout_workers_ca
• http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2815-Canadian-Labour-Declares-National-
Boycott-of-Petro-Canada-at-CEP-
Conventionhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/2343698/Handling-Employee-Complaints-
and-Strikes

• http://libcom.org/news/india-tea-estate-lockouts-lead-starvation-deaths-
• http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8412

• http://www.openbookalliance.org/2009/11/third-party-analysis-of-revised-google-
books-settlement

• http://legal-dictonary.thefreedictionary.com/Third+Party

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q=cache:dTsKTZSv_egJ:bc.inter.edu/facultad/ialvarado/BADM
%25203330/presentaciones%2520Mondy/Chapter
%252012.ppt+important+steps+of+HRM+to+stop+boycott+and+strikes+in+a+organi
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