MGMT 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Forces, Free Trade, Collective Bargaining
Employment relationships have changed significantly in the past 30-40 years through:
• Globalisation
• Trade liberalisation
• Labour market deregulation
• Competitive pressures
Fair Work Australia: the independent umpire that oversees the Australian workplace relations
system.
HRM and Industrial Relations:
The past (industrial relations) including beliefs that:
• Employees are an unavoidable cost
• Conflict is inevitable - 'them' and 'us'
• Little trust, poor communication
• Centralised control by head office staff specialists and unions
• Reliance on external bodies
• Line managers not responsible for IR
• Rigid work practices, emphasis on seniority
• Uniformity in pay and conditions
• Training a waste of time
The present/future HRM including beliefs that:
• Employees are most valuable asset
• Mutual interests and common goals
• Teamwork, increased true, open communication
• Decentralised control with emphasis on workplace negotiations
• Decreased role for fair work Australia and employer associations
• Line managers responsible for IR
• Flexible work practices, pay, conditions
• Belief that training is an investment
Industrial relations
Involves:
• Employees and their unions
• Employers and their associations
• Governments and the industrial tribunals
That through bargaining and negotiation make regulations governing the employment relationship.
IR is also intimately entwined with political, economic and social forces.
But so in its own way is HRM.
Approaches to industrial relations:
• Unitarist
o Mutual cooperation, individual treatment, teamwork and sharing common objectives.
• Pluralist
o Conflict is inevitable, and trade unions are a legitimate counter to management
authority.
• Marxist
o Industrial conflict as an aspect of class conflict, a solution being the overthrow of the
capitalist system.
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Parties in Industrial Relations:
• State and federal governments
• Industrial tribunals
• State and federal employers
• Employer associations
• Trade unions
• Employees
Government and industrial tribunals:
Governments in Australian have usually played a significant pat in Australian industrial relations
through legislation, industrial tribunals and as employers in their own right.
The Fair Work Commission is Australia's national workplace relations tribunal. It is an independent
body with power to carry out a range of functions under the Fair Work Act 2009, including:
• Providing a safety net of minimum conditions, including minimum wages in awards.
• Facilitating good faith bargaining and enterprise agreement making.
• Dealing with applications in relation to unfair dismissal.
• Administering the regulation of industrial action.
• Resolving a range of collective and individual workplace disputes through conciliation,
mediation and in some cases public tribunal hearings.
• Functions in connection with workplace determinations, equal remuneration, transfer of
business, general protections, right of entry and stand down.
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Document Summary
Employment relationships have changed significantly in the past 30-40 years through: globalisation, trade liberalisation, competitive pressures. Fair work australia: the independent umpire that oversees the australian workplace relations system. Involves: employees and their unions, employers and their associations, governments and the industrial tribunals. That through bargaining and negotiation make regulations governing the employment relationship. Ir is also intimately entwined with political, economic and social forces. But so in its own way is hrm. Approaches to industrial relations: unitarist, mutual cooperation, individual treatment, teamwork and sharing common objectives, pluralist, conflict is inevitable, and trade unions are a legitimate counter to management authority, marxist. Industrial conflict as an aspect of class conflict, a solution being the overthrow of the capitalist system. State and federal employers: employer associations, trade unions, employees. Governments in australian have usually played a significant pat in australian industrial relations through legislation, industrial tribunals and as employers in their own right.
