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Title: Employee Relations


1
Employee Relations
  • Lecture 7
  • Introducing the Concept, Evaluating Theory and
    Practice

2
Introduction
  • Defining Employee Relations Employee relations
    encompasses a set of phenomena, both inside and
    outside the workplace, concerned with determining
    and regulating the employment relationship
    Salaman 2000
  • Perspectives on Employee Relations
  • 1) Unitary 2) Pluralist 3) Marxist

3
Defining Employee Relations
  • Strategic hum resourcing options in
    management-union relations
  • 1) Non-Union 2) Single Union 3) Multiple Unions
  • Internal Factors
  • Size of the Organisation, ownership and location,
  • management philosophy
  • External Factors
  • Union Power and Legislation

4
The Changing Landscape
  • 1) Sophisticated Human Relations
  • 2) Paternalism
  • 3)Traditional
  • 4) Sophisticated Consultative
  • 5) Modern Paternalism
  • 6) Bargained Constitutional

5
Changing Patterns in union membership and
collective bargaining
  • Why do people join trade unions?
  • Changing Levels of Trade Union Membership
  • High Point 1979 453 Unions, 13. 2 million
  • members, 50 of working population,
  • 57 Trade union Density
  • Low Point 1998 238 Unions, 7.85 million
  • members, 29 of working population, 27
  • Trade union Density

6
The Changing Nature of Employee Relations
  • The Changing Nature of Employee Relations
  • 1) Input-Output Model
  • 2) Industrial Relations System (Dunlop 1958)
  • 3) Social Action
  • 4) Control of the Labour Process
  • 5) Human Resource Management
  • 6) Social Partnership

7
Aspects of Employee Relations
  • The Rule Making Process Rules for governing
    employment, and the ways in which the rules are
    changed, interpreted and administered
  • Levels of Analysis
  • Four main levels 1) Workplace 2) Organisation
  • 3) Industry or National Level 4) Societal Level
  • Industrial Relations issues Two distinct types
    of issues
  • 1) Substantive Issues
  • 2) Procedural Issues

8
Employee Relations The Complexities in Context
  • The links between employee relations and the
    labour market
  • Levels and Distribution of Pay, Demand and Supply
    of Labour, Level, Structure and Distribution of
    Employment, Government Regulation/Intervention,
    Economic Cycles, Demographic Factors,
    Technological advances, Expectations

9
The Parties to Employment Relations An Overview
  • Management and Employers
  • The Traditional Management Function,
    Sophisticated
  • Management Function, Human Resource Management
  • Management Organisations Employers Associations,
    CBI,
  • Employee Organisations, Trade Unions, TUC,
    Professional bodies,
  • The State and State Agencies, Employment
    Tribunals, LRA/LRC etc

10
A Brief History of Employee Relations in the UK I
  • Nineteenth Century Development Growth of Trade
    Unions, Legalisation of Trade Unions in 1825
  • Twentieth Century Development National and
    Industry Level Collective Bargaining, Economic
    Depression, High Unemployment, Decrease in TU
    membership, hostile employers
  • Increased pressure on post-war industrial
    relations employee pressures, employer pressures

11
A Brief History of Employee Relations in the UK II
  • The Donovan Commision (1968) The Transformation
    of Collective Bargaining, Voluntary Reform
  • 1976-1980- Confrontation
  • 1980- Government Legislation and Intervention
  • 1980s New Realism Changing roles for
    management, Process relationships, collective
    bargaining
  • 1990s- New Industrial Relations/Social
    Partnership

12
Summary
  • The Importance of Theory and Practice
  • Differing Stakeholder Views
  • Constant Evolution and Change
  • Labour Market Transformation
  • New Management Theories
  • National and International Systems
  • Simplicity and Complexity
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