INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

AND LABOR LEGISLATION

UNIT I
 IR Definition
Tead and Metcalfe observed that “industrial
relations are the composite result of the
attitudes and approaches of employers and
employees towards each other with regard to
planning, supervision, direction and
coordination of the activities of an organization
with a minimum of human efforts and frictions
with an animating spirit of cooperation and
with proper regard for the genuine well-being
of all members of the organization.”
 THE FOUR MAIN PARTIES
• The workers,
• The managements,
• The organisations of workers and
managements and
• The State.
 OBJECTIVES
Apart from the primary objective of bringing about
sound and healthy relations between employers
and employees, industrial relations aim:
i) To facilitate production and productivity;
ii) To safeguard the rights and interests of both
labour and management by enlisting their co-
operation;
iii) To achieve a sound, harmonious, and mutually
beneficial labour management relations;
iv) To avoid unhealthy atmosphere in the industry,
especially work, stoppages, goslows, gheraos,
strikes, lockouts; and
v) To establish and maintain industrial democracy
APPROACHES to IR