Supporting Good Practice in Managing Employee Relations The Start of the Employment Relationship Building successful employment relationships is important. It also makes good business sense: Organisations with good employment relationships tend to be more successful. Establishing and maintaining good faith relationships is the foundation to a successful business. Good faith generally involves using practical common sense and treating others in the way you would like to be treated
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belief in the values and goals of the organization‚ willing to step up efforts in the interests of the organization and have a strong desire to remain in the organization. Organizations constantly seek ways to increase employee productivity and enhance job performance. Facilitating employee feelings of vitality‚ defined as the subjective feeling of being alive and alert (Ryan and Frederick‚ 1997)‚ may be critical to achieving these ends‚ because employees who are vital feel alive and mentally and physically
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Describe how the Unitarist and Pluralist approaches to conflict would explain the industrial action taken by the Construction Forestry and Mining Employees Union in forming the Barangaroo picket line. Introduction: This essay will discuss the two different management approaches towards to the recent industrial action taken against Lend Lease and identify what differentiate the two approaches. The second part of the essay will provide an argument of how applying these approaches from the upper
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11/8/04 3:01 PM Page ii Chapter 1 THE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Chapter 2 THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK AND EMPLOYMENT bray_Chapter 01 11/8/04 3:01 PM Page 1 part one the n a t u re and c o n t e x t of industrial re l a t i o n s bray_Chapter 01 11/8/04 3:01 PM Page 2 bray_Chapter 01 11/8/04 3:01 PM Page 3 chapter one the study of industrial relations learning objectives After reading this chapter you should be able to:
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the book Labour Relations in the Global Fast Food Industry (Royle & Towers 2002) and its key findings the product of the authors’ ideological frame of reference? Or is it the product of genuine‚ objective research? Introduction Employment relations is the study of all aspect of work and the interaction between the management and the employees or the employee’s representative such as the Union (Ackers and Wilkinson‚ 2005). The underlying beliefs of employment or labour relations are often implicit
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Industrial Relations: Ideological Perspectives By Femi Aborisade Centre for Labour Studies & The Polytechnic‚ Ibadan aborisadefemi@gmail.com INTRODUCTION This paper identifies the key theories in industrial relations and draws out their implications on the concern for achieving ‘basic needs for all’. The following theories are examined: the political theories of Unitarism and Pluralism; the economistic theory; the democratic and political theory; the moral and ethical theory‚ and the
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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PERSPECTIVES UNITARY THEORY Workplace “has one source of authority and one source of loyalty” (Fox 1996: p. 3) - Dunlop (1958) argues that in a unitary theory‚ work organizations are integrated institutions with workers and management working in harmony. - Thus no conflict thesis is a dubious integration. It thrives on assumptions that all workers identify not only with the aims of the enterprise but also with the operating methods (Seifert 1992)
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Abstract Both the Elite and the Pluralist models are a means by which public policy is created. Both do not conform to the democracy created by our fore-fathers; a government for the people and by the people. The Elite model is one in which a small group of wealthy white males hold the power and control the policy making for our country. In contrast‚ the Pluralist model suggest that the power is distributed among interest groups that compete to control public policy. Both Karl Marx(1883) and
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APPLYING THE PLURALIST THEORY OF THE STATE TO THE PEOPLE POWER PHENOMENON IN THE PHILIPPINES A research paper submitted by Leah Marie O. Tumlos MA in Political Science to Dr. Julio Teehankee Professor‚ Political Science Department De La Salle University - Manila In partial fulfilment of the requirements for Theories of the State (POL760M) on August 25‚ 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Background and Context of the
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purpose they receive from working. It is this disconnect of ideals which creates workplace conflict. A workplace with a high degree of conflict may include the following symptoms; A decline in staff performance and productivity‚ high levels of employee turnover and absenteeism‚ verbal and physical conflict and workplace espionage. The organization may also suffer from covert workplace conflict that simmer’s below the surface and
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