International Relations and Climate ChangeFull description
Full description
Full description
Full description
Full description
Full description
Linguistics
Full description
Impact of Industrial Relations on Employee Productivity
Full description
Social Change and Violence The Indian ExPerience I Social Change and Violence The Indian ExPerience P. R Rajgopal Under the AusPices of Centre for Policy Research m UPPALPUBLISHING HO…Full description
Full description
3.959
Full description
Full description
about discourse
Reviewer on Persons and Family Relations
Industrial Relations and Technological Change
Contents
Industrial Relations (IR)
Definition Changing Patterns
Concepts of Technological Change Impact of Technological Change on IR Trade Union Response Rationalization & Automation
Definition Response in India
Industrial Relations
Definition: ◦
◦
◦
◦
A particular set of phenomena associated with regulating the human activity of employment. The making and administering of the institutions and rules of work regulation. Socio - Industrial conflict (in all its forms) and its resolution. Explicit and implicit bargaining employees and employers.
between
Contd……...
Changing Pattern: A degree of Regulated Labour market
Free and Unregulated Labour markets
Concepts of Technological Change
Technological change (TC) is a term that is used to describe the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. Technology is development.
an
instrument
of
It affects various aspects of economic and social life.
Contd……...
Types of Technological Changes Scientific Management or
Changes
Time & Motion studies
Location of Plants
In
Shift in Product Demand
Change in Machinery
Automation
Impact of Technological Change on Industrial Relations The two major concerned factors are : ◦
◦
The impact of technological change on levels of employment and the nature of skills. The growing resistance of trade unions to technological changes .
Contd……..
Trade Union Union Response
Fear of Unemployment Redundancy and Problems of Retraining Major Benefits of Improved Technology Workers Hardest Hit by Modernization Negotiated Change Appropriate Training Accent on Team Work Supportive Management Practices
Rationalization & Automation Automation
Rationalisation ◦
implies a basic change in the structure and control of industrial activities. Its techniques can be applied to methods, material and men.
In Automation , ◦
technology itself controls the operations. The machine provides data from its operations and feeds it back to its own controls which governs the production process.
Response in India
Cotton-textile- Workers Workers accepted it. ◦
◦
Jute- International Competition ◦
- Introduced in the form of efficiency measures. -Additional strain & Inadequate increase in earnings.
- Progress slow, Dependence on foreign country for Raw Material
Coal- Rationalization in larger mines, old methods in small mines