Unitary Perspective - Approaches to Industrial RelationsIndustrial Relations

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Manu Melwin JoyAssistant Professor

Ilahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

Approaches to Industrial Relations

Unitary Perspective

• The unitary perspective is based

on the assumption that the

organization is an integrated

group of people with single

authority/ loyalty structure and

a set of common values,

interests and objectives shared

by all members of the

organization.

Unitary Perspective

• Management’s prerogative

is regarded as legitimate,

rational and accepted and

any opposition to it is seen

as irrational.

Unitary Perspective

• The organization is

not regarded as a

them and us situation

– as Farnham and

Pimlott put it.

Unitary Perspective

• There is no conflict

between the interests of

those supplying capital to

the enterprise and their

managerial

representatives, and those

contributing their labor.

Unitary Perspective

• The underlying

assumption of this view

is that the organizational

system is in basic

harmony, and conflict is

unnecessary and

exceptional.

Unitary Perspective

• This has two implications.

– Conflict is perceived an

irrational activity.

– Trade unions are regarded as

intrusions into the

organizations from outside

which compete with

management for the loyalty of

employees.

Unitary Perspective

• Managements clings to

this view because.:– It legitimizes its authority role by

projecting the interests of

management and employees as

being the same and by

emphasizing managements role

of governing in the best interest

of organization as a whole.

Unitary Perspective

• Managements clings to

this view because.:– It reassures managers by

confirming that conflict,

where it exists, is largely the

fault of the government

rather than management.

Unitary Perspective

• Managements clings to

this view because.:– It may be projected to the

outside world as a means of

persuading them that

management’s decisions and

actions are right and the best in

the circumstances and that any

challenge to them is subversive.