Objectives of Industrial Relations

The primary objectives of industrial relations are to maintain convenial relations between employers and employer. The objectives are
1. To self guard the interest of labour and management by securing highest level of mutual understanding and goodwill among those sections in the industry which participate in the process of production.
2. To rise the productivity to a higher level of full employment by lessoning the tendency to high turn over and frequent absention.
3. To eliminate and participate in strikes and lockouts by providing reasonable wager improved living and working conditions and other benefits.
4. To establish government controls of such plants and units as are running at a loss or in which production has to be regulated in public interest.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DEFINED IN DIFFERENT WAYS

Industrial relations is a whoel field of relationship that exists because of the necessary collaborations of men and women in the employment process of an industry. Date Yoder.
Industrial relation system creates an ideology or commonly shared body of ideas and beliefs regarding interactions and roles of the actors which helps to find the system together”. Dunlop.
A system of industrial relations is a system of rule. There rules prevail in legislation and statutory order in union regulation, in collective agreements and arbitration awards etc., resulting in certain regulated as institutionalized relationship in work place” – flonders.
According to the international labour organization (ILO), ‘industrial relation deal with either the relationship between the state and employers and workers organizations or the relations between the occupational organizations themselves.’

SCOPE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Industrial relations are relations between employee and employer in their day-to-day work. Hence, it is continuous relationship. The scope o industrial relations include.
· Relationship among employee between employees and their susperiors or managers.
· Collective relations between trade union and management. It is called union-management relations.
· Collective relations among trade unions, employees associations and government Scott, clothier and Spiegel remarked that the industrial relations has to attain the maximum individual development, desirable working relationships between management and employees and effective moulding of human resources. They have also arrested that either industrial relations or personnel administration is primarily concerned with all functions relating man of industrial relations seems to be very wide. It includes the establishment and maintenance of good personnel relations in the industry, ensuring manpower development, establishing a closer connect between persons connected with the industry and that between the management and the workers, creating a sense of belongingness in the minds of management, creating a mutual affection, responsibility and regard for eachotehr, stimulating production as well as industrial and economic development, establishing a good industrial climate and peace and ultimately maximizing social welfare.

IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

The significance of good industrial relation in any country cannot be ones emphasized. Good industrial relations are necessary for the following reasons.
1. To help in economic progress of a country. The problem of an increase in productivity is essentially the problem of maintaining good industrial relations. That is why they form an important part of the economic development plan of every civilized nation.
2. To help establishing and maintaining true industrial democracy this is prerequisite for the establishment of a socialist society.
3. To help the management both in the formulations of informed labour relations policies and in their translation into action.
4. To encourage collective bargaining as a means of self-regulation. They consider the negotiation process as an educational opportunity a chance both to learn and to reach.
5. To help government a making laws forbidding unfair practices of unions and employers. In climate good industrial relations every party works for the solidarity of workers movement. Unions gain more strength and vitality. There is no inter-union rivalry.
6. Employees give unions their rightful recognition nd encourage them to participate in all decisions. Unions divert their activities from fighting and belligerence to increase the size of the distribution and to make their members more informed (workers education) on vital issues concerning them.
7. To boost the discipline and morale of workers. Maintenance of discipline ensures orderliness. Effectiveness and economy in the use of resources. On the other hand, lack of discipline means waste, loss and confusion. It also means in sub-ordination and non-co-operation.
8. Industrial relations are eventually human relations therefore, the same basis of human psychology prevails in the field of industrial relations therefore, and the efficiency of an industry is directly related with the quality of relationship, which is being built up amongst the individuals who work together..

NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Industrial relations are always a mixture of co-operation and conflict. However much co-operation may be sought as organizational objectives. Some conflict will always remain. There are at least 3 reasons for this.
1. Both the groups (labour and management) develop different orientations and perceptions of their interests. They also develop generally negative images about each other.
2. There are no mutually accepted yard sticks or norms to tell to the groups how far they should go in the pursuit of their objectives. In the absence of norms both groups claim complete rationality for their demands.
3. There is no neutral field for the groups to meet on. This means that whenever the two groups meet each other for negotiations they bring with he past besides their inherent. Distrust and suspicion for each other.

OVERVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Industrial relations refer to the complex of relations between ‘employee-employer’ relations. Industrial relations will be treated here as study of employee-employer relationship.
An industry is a social world in miniature where an association of variety of people like employees, executives and supervisory personnel and workmen interact and create a relationship known as industrial relations. The industrial life creates a series of social relationship which regulate the relation and working of a wide variety of people either directly, indirectly. The industrial relations are, therefore a part of industrial life as such they include.
Ø Labour relations between union and management.
Ø Employer – employee relations between management and employees
Ø Group relations between various groups of workmen.
Ø Community or public relations between industry and society

All the necessitate the maintenance of harmonious industrial relations so as to maintain higher productivity to fulfill the goals of the five year plans in India., The investment in and the scope of industries in India have been growing plan after plan. Much of the success or failure of Indian five year plans would be dependent on the maintenance of harmonious employee-employer relations frequent industrial conflicts not only effect the management and labour but also tend to impoverish the community as a whole. They lead to wastage, formant class hatred, embitter mutual relations and inflict damages on the progress of the nation. They also clog the progress and development of the nation.

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The size of industrial labour in India has increased remarkably due to rapid and planned industrial development. The increase in industrial labour led to the formation and development of trade unions and various social groups. It has also been recognized that management without labour would be sterile and labour without management would be disorganized, ill-equipped and ineffective. It is realized that the concrete co-operation between labour and management is highly essential to fulfill the individual, organization and natural goals.
The First Five Year Plan has clearly demonstrated the fact that, an economy organized for planned production and distribution, aiming at realization of social justice and the welfare of masses can function effectively only in an atmosphere of industrial peace.

There has been a phenomenal growth in employment, wages, benefits, working conditions, status of the worker, educational facilities etc., with the growth and spread of industry. Moreover, carrier patterns have also changed widely by providing change for wide varieties of jobs to the working communities. This has been possible only through fast industrial development which, in its turn, depends on industrial peace.One of the main goals of the five years plans in India has been rapid industrialization and more employment in secondary and territory industries. T is also viewed that one of the essential steps for building up an economical free and self sustaining India is, large scale industrialization at a rapid and steady growth.With the attainment of independence and with the launching of planning era, serious and earnest efforts have been made towards rapid economic development of India. India has been in the middest of an ambitious and critically important effort to raise the living standards of her people by an integrated industrial and economic development plan.

Introduction

Industrial relationship mainly maintained by management and employees. The employees normally refers to form as unions to get their grievance settled by management. The individual grievances can not be effectively solved by management and as such with the help of recognized trade unions and with the support of educated leaders who are required to the rules and regulations of organization they believe having collective bargaining. The employees mostly permitted to participate in the meeting to have smoother their industrial relations with in the industry generally the trade unions much importance to ventilate. The practical problem of the employee working in the industry by mutual understanding with the representative of the manager and the unions. The industrial relations mainly speak about working conditions for its benefits.

Introduction to Indusrial relations

Industrial relations constitute one of the most delicate and complex problems of the modern industrial society which is characterized by rapid change, industrial unrest and conflicting ideologies in the national and international spheres. It is a dynamic concept which depends upon the pattern of society, economic society and political setup of a country and changes with the changing economic and social order. It is an art of living together for the purposes of production, productive efficiency, human well-being and industrial progress. It comprises of a network of institution, such as, trade unionism, collective bargaining, employers, the law, and the state, which are bound together by a set of common values and aspirations. Acknowledge of such institutions is important if we are to understand every days industrial relations phenomena. These institutions are a social network of organizations, participants, processes and decisions, all of which interact and inter-relate together with in the industrial relations environment and even beyond it.