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Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations
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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
The term ‘industrial relations’ refers to
relationships between management and
labour or among employees and their
organisations that characterise or grow
out of employment. There are two parties
in ‘employment’ relationship-labour &
management. Both parties need to work in
a spirit of cooperation, adjustment &
accommodation.
Industrial Relations : Major Influences
Government
Rules, Awards,
Employer Policies Employees
Industrial
Relations
Employers’ Trade
Associations Unions
Usages, customers, traditions within a
country
Objectives of Industrial
Relations
To enhance the economic status of the workers.
To regulate the production by minimising industrial
conflicts through state controls.
To socialise industries by making government an
employer.
To provide an opportunity to the workers to have a
say in management & decision making.
To encourage & develop trade unions in order to
improve the workers’ collective strength.
To avoid indusial conflicts & their consequences.
To extend & maintain industrial democracy.
Approaches to Industrial
Relations
Psychological approach
Sociological approach
Giri approach
Gandhian approach
HRD Approach to Industrial
Relations
Human Resource Development involves
ways to better adjust the individual to