Workers participation

Lab-mgmt relation-definition
Joint efforts of labor & capital to find out solutions & remedies of problems, common to both

Goals
Increasing productivity Promoting industrial democracy Avoiding conflict & friction

Different degrees& forms

Information sharing Problem sharing Joint consultation Workers participation in mgmt.

Schemes of WP in India
Works committee Joint mgmt council Board- level participation Shop councils & joint councils Unit councils Institution of employees participation Joint councils in govt. services Institutions in some enterprises in pvt. sector

Works committee -Composition

No. of workers representative may exceed no. of employers representative

Functions
To promote measures for securing & preserving amity & good relations between the employers & workmen and, in order to achieve this end, to comment upon matters of their common interests.

Joint mgmt council (1958)

Non-statutory forum where employers & workers cud usefully deliberate on matters of common interest

Objectives
Promoting cordial relation Developing understanding & trust Augmenting productivity Securing better facilities for workers Training them to share & understand responsibilities of mgmt

Composition
Mgmt representative= employee representative 6-12 Nominated by representative union

Functions
Consultative Information- sharing Administrative functions

Consultative
General adm of standing orders & their amendments when needed Intro. Of new methods of production & mfr. Closure, reduction in or cessation of operations

Information receiving
Gen. eco. Situations in the concern Org. & general running of undertaking State of mkt., production& sales programme Methods of mfr. & work Long term plans for expansion

Administrative
Adm. Of welfare measures Supervision of safety measures Operation of vocational training

Board-level participation (1970)

In selected PSUs &Nationalized banks

20 point programme
Shop council Joint council

Shop council
At shop/department level If employees 500 or more

Composition
Representative of employers= workers Decided by employer in consultation with Decision by consensus Decision to be implemented within one month For 2 years

Joint council
Industrial unit Meet once in a quarter