Theories Flashcards
Define industrial relaions
The study of interactions, behaviours and outcome in the workplace looking at the different actors and how they influence those outcomes and interactions.
Employee relations
Concerned with how the employment relationship is governed, by who and how the rules are made.
What type of relation focuses on the interactions of people at work?
Employee relations
What is a frame of reference
The way we see the world and interpret things
What influences our FoR
Social position and education
Unitrisim
Everybody works towards a common goal
What is a unitarist approach to conflict?
There should be no conflict between the employee and employer as management is the sole authority.
How is somebody who expresses conflict viewed in a unitarist org?
As a trouble maker who is working against the goals of the company.
Pluralism
Everybody in a workplace has different goals and objectives
What is a pluralist approach to conflict
Viewed as a natural process and accept that it will happen
Radical approach
There is an inherent conflicting interest between management and workers
What do radicals believe in terms of power
That there is an uneven balance of power in the workplace
Individualism
Policies based on their value of the individual and their right to advancement
What are individual beliefs on financial incentives
The right of the employer to offer financial incentives to get employees to work for them
What type of communication is used in individualistic organisations
Direct
