NDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

NATURE OF IR

• IR : relationship between management and workers and the role of regulatory

mechanism in resolving any industrial dispute.

• IR covers the following areas.

1.collective bargaining.
2.role of management, unions, and government.
3.machinery for resolution of industrial disputes.
4.individual grievance and disciplinary policy and practice.
5.labour legislation.
6.industrial relations training.
 PARTIES TO IR

Employees Employers

Employee associations Employer – employee Employer associations

Relations.

Government Courts and tribunals

ROLE PLAYS BY
NDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN

 communication.
 counseling.
 development role.
 research.
 maintain discipline.
 Motivation.
 productivity.
 Judicial intervention.
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 Case study
A WARRIED CEO
₪ Sudrashan (M.D of M.feeds).
₪ Futile of his efforts to regain lost market and red balance sheet.
₪ Continues lighting up cigarette after cigarette and sipping of coffee.
₪ Events which wrecked fortunes of a once successful company.

1. union election
2. subbu & team defeated.
3. gowda and team got majority (militancy).
4. gowda and his team were not liking of management & setty (factory manager).
5. subbu and team started cultural association.
6. subbu demanded that management negotiate with them for employee welfare.
7. gowda and subbu – heated exchange of words / physical bout.
8. enquiry conducted – subbu (acquitted) & gowda (refused to appear).
9. subbu demanded reinstatement (management agreed).
10. subbu with trimph writ large on his face – came to factory.
11. but here it was a strike by workers.
11. management assured gowda that he too would be reinstated & acquitted.
12. gowda was not in mood to listen nor to face the enquiry.
13. subbu demanded reinstatement which gowda protested.
14. it continues for 3 months.
15. work resumed after prolonged talks. (setty got sack , sridhar left, M.feeds lost his customers and first
time set a marketing department to regain, bottom line grew thicker)
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