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Industrial relations has its roots in the industrial revolution which created the
modern employment relationship by spawning free labor markets and large-scale
industrial organizations with thousands of wage workers. As society wrestled with
these massive economic and social changes, labor problems arose. Low wages,
long working hours, monotonous and dangerous work, and abusive supervisory
practices led to high employee turnover, violent strikes, and the threat of social
instability. Intellectually, industrial relations was formed at the end of the 19th
century as a middle ground between classical economics and Marxism, with
Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb’s Industrial Democracy (1897) being the key
intellectual work. Industrial relations thus rejected the classical econ.
EMPLOYMENT
Management Trade Unions
RELATIONSHIP
Industrial Environment
Government
The Actors Of IR
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Is IR-A Process ?
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Employment discrimination.
Employee rights and other issues and the legal
environment of work.
Labor relations and collective bargaining are
closely governed by law.
Settling all Industrial Disputes.
Objectives of Industrial Relations
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Three Groups
The Management Group
The Union Group
The Government
Issue:
To a very progressive and good management the union is demanding
a pay hike of 30%.
The management all through been very considerate and had been
taking care of their workers .
Follow up results.
Trade Union
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Conciliation Officer
Arbitration & Adjudication
Constitutional Provisions.
Can The Unions & Management
Play Road Blocks For Each
Other ?
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Collective Bargaining
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Collective Bargaining
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“Collective Bargaining is a process in which the
representatives of a labour organization & the
representatives of business organization meet and
attempt to negotiate a contract or agreement, which
specifies the nature of employee-employer union
relationship”.
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Enterprise or
Plant Level
Secret Ballot
Check off system
Membership verification
Agreements Settlements & Awards
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