Industrial relations involves managing the employment relationship between employers, employees, and the government according to laws, culture, and rules. The objective of industrial relations is to safeguard the interests of both labor and management by developing mutual understanding to avoid conflicts and improve economic conditions. It aims to ensure full employment, reduce absenteeism, and increase productivity and profits by providing better wages and living conditions for workers. Understanding industrial relations is important for various groups including workers to understand their rights, union leaders to protect workers, managers to improve productivity, and students who will one day fill these roles.
Industrial relations involves managing the employment relationship between employers, employees, and the government according to laws, culture, and rules. The objective of industrial relations is to safeguard the interests of both labor and management by developing mutual understanding to avoid conflicts and improve economic conditions. It aims to ensure full employment, reduce absenteeism, and increase productivity and profits by providing better wages and living conditions for workers. Understanding industrial relations is important for various groups including workers to understand their rights, union leaders to protect workers, managers to improve productivity, and students who will one day fill these roles.
Industrial relations involves managing the employment relationship between employers, employees, and the government according to laws, culture, and rules. The objective of industrial relations is to safeguard the interests of both labor and management by developing mutual understanding to avoid conflicts and improve economic conditions. It aims to ensure full employment, reduce absenteeism, and increase productivity and profits by providing better wages and living conditions for workers. Understanding industrial relations is important for various groups including workers to understand their rights, union leaders to protect workers, managers to improve productivity, and students who will one day fill these roles.
Industrial relations involves managing the employment relationship between employers, employees, and the government according to laws, culture, and rules. The objective of industrial relations is to safeguard the interests of both labor and management by developing mutual understanding to avoid conflicts and improve economic conditions. It aims to ensure full employment, reduce absenteeism, and increase productivity and profits by providing better wages and living conditions for workers. Understanding industrial relations is important for various groups including workers to understand their rights, union leaders to protect workers, managers to improve productivity, and students who will one day fill these roles.
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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ADS 465)
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 DEFINITION
Industrial Relations (IR) is about the management of an equitable employment
relationship between the employer, the employee and the government within the complex framework of law, culture, convention and rules. According to Salamon 2000, it is also about the confrontation of group interests tinged with ideologies and how the different parties sometimes submerge self interest through the lack of collective will, and cooperation with each other, in the pursuit of broader goals for the common benefits. According to Dunlop 1993, Industrial Relations is the dimensions that impact upon this relationship may be ideological, technological, societal, economic and legal in nature. IR is not only about industrial disputes and work problems that crop up every now and then when the employment system has broken down. It is about how production can be upgraded through mutual understanding and compliance of certain acceptable rules that govern the two direct parties in the employment relationship (Salamon 2000, Jackson 1991). It is associated and their trade unions and also the government witth its arbitation system (Aminuddin 1999, Balakrishnan 2002). Industrial Relations focuses on areas such as laws and rules which impact on the work environment. It also focus on the terms and conditions of work and the rights of employers and employees. Then, it focus on the processes by which the rules and terms are made, etc the decision making process.
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1.2 OBJECTIVE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
The objective of industrial relations is to safeguard the interest of labor and
management by securing the highest level of mutual understanding and good-will among all those sections in the industry which participate in the process of productions. It also to avoid industrial conflict, develop harmonious relations and to improve the economic conditions of workers in the existing state of industrial management and political government. Industrial relations also used to protect management and labor interests by securing mutual relations between the two groups and to avoid disputes between management and labor to create a harmonizing relationship so that productivity can be increased.
It is to ensure full employment and reduce absenteeism, hence, increasing productivity
and profit. Industrial relations provide better wages and living conditions to labor so misunderstanding between management and labor are reduced to a minimum level. It also to bring about government control over plants where losses are running high, or where products are produced in the public interest.
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1.3 IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Several groups of people need to understand the theory and practice of industrial relations as follows:
a. Workers to make them know their rights and obligations under the employment laws, aware of the benefits can be gained or risks might be faced by joining trade union and develop healthy attitude towards workplace.
b. Trade union leaders
to enable them perform their roles effectively in protecting workers from greedy employers.
c. Managers to ensure their effectiveness in dealing with workforce, in improving productivity and increasing profitability of the organisation.
d. Officers and executives in human resource and industrial relations
departments to carry out their job responsibilities particularly in improving their human skills in order to administer the system wisely . (Maimunah Aminuddin : 2006 : pp 4 - 6)
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e. Students they are future workers, trade unionists, managers, lawyers, officers/executives and employers.
