INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSHIP

Industrial Relationship

Is the Public Sector the new Heartland of a Conflict approach to Industrial Relations?

Introduction

Industrial relationships are also known as the employment relationships. The employment or employment relationships are those that can be established between labour and capital in the production process. In this relationship, the person providing the work is called a worker, while providing the capital, which is called the employer, employer or manager. The employee is always an individual, while the employer may be either a reasonable person as a juridical person. In modern societies, the employment relationship governed by an employment contract in which both parties are officially free. However, a single worker is in fact, a situation of weakness against the employer to prevent you from establishing a relationship free, so it can be understood that an employment relationship to be truly free must be made collectively among unionized workers and the employer (Treu, 1991, 307-321).

An industrial dispute includes the labour disputes, which are likely to affect the financial and interstate public peace, transcending the limits nationals. Labour disputes have a noun derived from the application, in any form, the labour law to a legal or social relationship. This encourages what has been called the "depersonalization of the parties" in the sense that "For its specific nature considered that the conflict has occurred between capital and labour, a concept which serves as the basis for allocating to each of the disputing parties a role and a different meaning within the labour dispute.” (Treu, 1987, 111-143)

Discussion and Analysis

The Industrial Relations Consequences of State Reform: Common Trends

The rolling back of the state and the reform of its internal operations has in many respects transformed the industrial relations of the state sector. The impact has been both direct and indirect. Governments have intervened directly to reform state collective bargaining machinery and to cut labour costs (which generally account, for around two-thirds of the current state expenditure) by restraining pay and reducing employment levels. Indirectly, the responses of public managers to the changing frameworks of responsibility and reward within which they now operate have had major industrial relations ramifications (Kelly, 2011, 56-89).

The emerging issues for industrial relations that lead towards the strike is the issue none other than the issue of economic liberalization since 1991, which gave the direction of market economy and globalization. Liberalization made business and industry free from various controls. The survival of UK industry depends on the ability to compete with firms within the country and the companies abroad. In the process, the industries in UK aimed at improving their competitive ability. In this emerging scenario, there is a need for labor management co-operation through consultation rather than collective bargaining. (Oxley, 1991, pp. 145-189). Liberalization results in higher wages and salaries for highly skilled and talented employees. Demand for highly committed personnel is on the rise and continuous development is necessary. Unskilled and lack of commitment personnel will have very little to contribute in the era of ...