UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...

• To secure protection from economic hazards beyond their control; for example,
illness, accident, death, disability, unemployment and old age;
• To get along with their fellow-workers in a better way and to gain respect in
the eyes of their peers; and
• To get a job through the good offices of a trade union.
Plants get unionized for three reasons – dissatisfaction, lack of power and union
instrumentality. Dissatisfied employees seek union membership to improve work situation.
Employees believe unionization fetch them power. Power, in turn, is believed to remove
dissatisfaction. Employees take unions as instruments to remove dissatisfaction.
In general, the expectation that work will satisfy personal preferences induces
satisfaction or dissatisfaction with work. As the level of dissatisfaction increases,
individual workers seek to change their work situation. If they fail, and if the positive
consequences of unionization seem to outweigh the negative ones, individual workers will
be inclined to join the union.
TYPES OF TRADE UNION
Trade unions may be classified in various ways
• Business unions
It is that emphasis upon the economic advantages to be bargained through
collective action and thus aim at improving the wages, working hours and
conditions of workers and similar other objectives largely through the process of
collective bargaining.
• Predatory unions
It is that serve as a means for the enrichment of its leaders who pay only secondary
attention to the advancement of interests of members. It distinctive characteristic is
the ruthless pursuit of the target by whatever means deemed appropriate at the time
regardless of ethical or legal codes or effect upon those outside its own
membership. Such a union may employ any of the business, friendly, revolutionary
or violent methods for the achievement of its objectives.
• Dependant or company unions