Industrial relation

INDUSTRIAL RELATION
 INDUSTRY

Sec2(j)
It means any business,trade,undertaking,manufacturing
or calling of employers & includes any calling ,service
,employment, handicraft or industrial occupation or
avocation of workmen.
-The Industrial Dispute Act 1947
 TRADITIONAL PRESENT
LABOUR :
MASTER - SERVANT HUMAN RELATIONS

ILLITERATE EDUCATED

NOTCONSCIOUS AWARE, INFORMED

ILL MOTIVATED WILLING/MOTIVATED

MANAGEMENT :
AUTHORITATIVE COLLABORATIVE

AUTOCRATIC DEMOCRACTIC

PATERNALISTIC MUTUALITY

PREROGATIVE RESTRICTIVE
LABOUR CAPITAL:
CONFRONTATIONIST COOPERATIVE

FACTORS OF HUMAN
PRODUCTION
 WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ?

AN ACT OR ART OF CONTROLLING

HUMAN RESOURCES IN EMPLOYMENT.
ALSO REFERRED AS LABOUR RELATIONS,
LEGAL RELATIONS ETC.

TWO INSEPARABLE LIMBS.

INTEREST APPARENTLY CONFLICT BUT

COMPLIMENTARY.
 DEFINITION:

Relations between the

management of an industrial
enterprise and its employees.

Process by which people and their

organization interact at the place of work to
establish the terms and conditions of
employment
 Employee

Actors in
IR

Management Government
 OBJECTIVES :

Congenial Labour mgmt relations

Enhance economic status of the worker
Regulate the production by minimizing industrial
conflict
Socialize industries by making government as
employer
Workers to have a say in management &decision
making
Encourage &develop trade union
Avoid industrial conflict consequences
Industrial democracy
 Functions

1. Communication is to be established between workers and the

management in order to bridge the traditional gulf between
the two.
2.To establish a rapport between managers and the managed.
3.To ensure creative contribution of trade unions to avoid
industrial conflicts, to safeguard the interest of workers on
the one hand and the management on the other hand, to
avoid unhealthy, unethical atmosphere in an industry.
4.To lay down considerations which may promote understanding,
creativity and co-operation to raise industrial productivity, to
ensure better workers participation?
IMPORTANCE OF IR

Uninterrupted Production
Reduction in Industrial Disputes
High Morale
Mental Revolution
New Programme
Reduced Wastage
SUCCESS OF IR

a) Top Management support

b) Sound Personnel policies
c) Adequate practice should be
developed by professionals
d) Detailed supervisory training
e) Follow up results