INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
THE CONCEPT, THEORIES, PARTIES, PROCESS AND ISSUES IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
BY
SHONDE YEMI EMMANUEL 11120003
Hnd ii business administration (part time)
Lecturer In charge;
MR AKINTUNDE
Feb. 2013 CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
The term Industrial Relations comprises of two terms: industry and Relations. Industry refers to any productive activity in which an individual (or a group of individuals) is (are) engaged. By relations we mean the relationships that exist within the industry between the employer and his workmen.
It explains the relationship between employees and management which stem directly or indirectly from union-employer relationship.
It looks at the relationship between management and workers, particularly groups of workers represented by a union. It’s basically the interactions between employers, employees and the government, and the institutions and associations through which such interactions are mediated It has a broad as well as a narrow outlook
It also includes the processes through which these relationships are expressed (such as, collective bargaining, workers participation in decision-making, and grievance and dispute settlement), and the management of conflict between employers, workers and trade unions, when it arises.
SCOPE
It is very wide meaning and connotation. In the narrow sense, it means that the employer, employee relationship confines itself to the relationship that emerges out of the day today association of the management and the labor. In its wider sense, it include the relationship between an employee and an employer in the course of the running of an industry and may project it to spheres, which may transgress to the areas of quality control, marketing, price fixation and disposition of profits among others.
The scope or industrial relations are quite vast. The main issues involved here