Industrial relations (IR) deals with the relationship between employers and employees. IR involves both cooperation and conflict between labor and management. It is influenced by factors such as technology, politics, labor policies, trade unions, and global supply and demand. IR includes studying how to foster cooperation between employers and employees as well as the government policies and laws that regulate their relationship. Key aspects of IR are institutions like unions and employers groups, participants like managers and union representatives, and processes like collective bargaining and dispute resolution. IR addresses issues regarding employment terms, worker welfare, and participation in decision making.
Industrial relations (IR) deals with the relationship between employers and employees. IR involves both cooperation and conflict between labor and management. It is influenced by factors such as technology, politics, labor policies, trade unions, and global supply and demand. IR includes studying how to foster cooperation between employers and employees as well as the government policies and laws that regulate their relationship. Key aspects of IR are institutions like unions and employers groups, participants like managers and union representatives, and processes like collective bargaining and dispute resolution. IR addresses issues regarding employment terms, worker welfare, and participation in decision making.
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Industrial relations (IR) deals with the relationship between employers and employees. IR involves both cooperation and conflict between labor and management. It is influenced by factors such as technology, politics, labor policies, trade unions, and global supply and demand. IR includes studying how to foster cooperation between employers and employees as well as the government policies and laws that regulate their relationship. Key aspects of IR are institutions like unions and employers groups, participants like managers and union representatives, and processes like collective bargaining and dispute resolution. IR addresses issues regarding employment terms, worker welfare, and participation in decision making.
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IR concept •Among all other problems prevailing in an organization, IR is the most prominent. •It is due to one factor that it deals with people who are the base of the industry: who can make things happen. •IR is defined as employer-employee relations in both organized and unorganized sectors of the economy. Features: •IR is born out as employment relationship in the industry. •It is characterized by both conflict & co-operation. •It also includes vital environmental issues like technology, political environment, labor policies, trade union, global supply & demand. •It involves the study of conditions conducive to the labor & management cooperation as well as practices and policies required to elicit the desired cooperation from both the parties. •Includes the government framework as well pertaining to the laws, rules and regulations. Factors •Institutions: include government, employers, trade unions, labor courts and other organizations which have direct or indirect impact on the industrial relations system. •Characters: studies the role of workers, unions, shop stewards, IR manager, mediator ( arbitrator/ conciliator), judge of labor court, tribunal etc. Continued Methods: the focus is on collective bargaining, workers participation in IR schemes, discipline, procedure, grievance redressal machinery, dispute settlement team, union recognition, org. protests through methods like strikes, lockouts, formulation & revision of existing rules, regulations, decisions of labor courts etc in defining the rights & obligations of the parties. Contents: includes matters pertaining to employment conditions like pay, leave with pay, safety & health actions, lay off, dismissals, retirement etc laws relating to such activities legislation governing labor welfare, social security, IR, issues concerned with workers participation in management, collective bargaining, sharing gains of productivity profits.