Lecture 11 Industrial Relations Review

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Lecture 11Industrial Relations Review

• PERSPECTIVES
• Approaches to
• industrial relations
• The context of industrial relations
• Concepts and values in industrial relations

• PARTICIPANTS
• Trade unions
• TU development
• Organisation Structure
• Management
• Management strategies
• Government
• Intervention Strategies

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Key Processes of Industrial Relations

• Collective Bargaining
• Nature of collective
• bargaining
• The structure of collective bargaining
• Multi employer
• Single employer
• Decentralisation of
• Collective bargaining

• Employee involvement and participation
• Industrial action
• Function forms of industrial action
• Legal framework
• Conciliation arbitration
• ACAS

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Approaches to industrial relations

• Unitary Perspective
• Pluralistic Perspective
• Marxist Perspective
• Industrial relations
• system
• Social action
• Human Resource
• Management

• Changes in ideology in
• the 1980s
• Economic, Social and
• Political Environments
• Labour markets/
• Comparative Approach
• New realism or anomie?
• The mass media

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Concepts and Values of Industrial Relations

• Fairness Equality
• Power Authority
• Individualism
• Collectivism
• Rights
• Responsibilities
• Integrity and Trust

• Key players in the
• 1990s
• Management's
• Inward Investors
• Greenfield site operations
• Public sector
• Developing SMEs

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Management Styles

• Two Dimensions
• Individualism
• Collectivism
• Three stages of
• individual dimension
• Commodity status
• Paternalism
• Resource status

• Three stages of the
• collective dimension
• Unitary
• Adversarial
• Co-operative
• Development of HRM,
• selection,training,
• rewards, flexibility

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Management strategies

• Management's attitudes
• towards employment
• relationship
• Traditional
• Paternalist
• Sophisticated human resources
• Sophisticated modern

• Modern Paternalist
• Sophisticated consultative
• Combination of different
• elements
• Continuity Change
• Org Decentralisation
• Labour Segmentation

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Human Resource Management

• A strategic, integrated
• and highly distinctive
• approach to the
• management of people
• External and Internal
• pressures.
• Strategic HRMHigh
• Mutual Commitment

• Guest Typology
• HRM policy goals
• Specific HRM policies and practices
• Integrated package
• Ideological cement
• Organisational Outcomes

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New Players in Industrial Relations

• Employers Associations
• The Confederation of
• British Industry
• The Equal Opportunities
• Commission/ The Fair
• Employmen
• Commission
• The LRA

• The Partnership in
• Change Group
• The Northern Ireland
• Growth Challenge
• The European
• Commission
• CIPD