UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...
UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...
UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...
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ME<strong>AN</strong>ING <strong>AN</strong>D DEFINITION<br />
LESSON III<br />
M<strong>AN</strong>AGING CONFLICT<br />
An industrial dispute means any dispute or difference between employers and employers<br />
or employers and workmen or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with<br />
employment or non-employment or terms <strong>of</strong> employment or conditions <strong>of</strong> labour, <strong>of</strong> any<br />
person.<br />
Every human being (say a worker) has a certain needs. E.g., economic needs,<br />
social needs and needs for security. When these needs do not get satisfied, there arises a<br />
conflict between labour and capital. A conflict means a struggle or clash between the<br />
interests <strong>of</strong> the employer and the workers. When an industrial conflict (which otherwise is<br />
general in nature) acquires a concrete and specific display or revelation, it becomes an<br />
“industrial dispute”. A conflict takes the shape <strong>of</strong> Industrial Dispute as soon as the issues<br />
<strong>of</strong> controversy are submitted to the employer for negotiations.<br />
The Industrial Disputes act, 1947, defines an industrial dispute as “ any dispute or<br />
difference between employers and employers, or between employees and employees, or<br />
between employers and employees, which is connected with the employment, or nonemployment,<br />
or the terms <strong>of</strong> employment or with the conditions <strong>of</strong> work <strong>of</strong> any person”.<br />
FORMS OF DISPUTES<br />
Industrial Disputes may take the form <strong>of</strong> strikes, go-slow tactics, token strikes,<br />
sympathetic strikes, pen-down strikes, hunger strikes, bandhs, gheraos and lockouts.<br />
A strike is a stoppage <strong>of</strong> work initiated or supported by a trade union, when a<br />
group <strong>of</strong> employees act together as a last resort to bring pressure to bear on an employer to<br />
resolve a grievance or constrain him to accept such terms and conditions <strong>of</strong> service as the<br />
employees want to enjoy.<br />
If, however, an employer closes down his factory or place where his workers are<br />
employed. Or if he refuses to continue in his employ a person or persons because he wants<br />
to force them to agree to his terms and conditions <strong>of</strong> service during the pendency <strong>of</strong> a<br />
dispute, the resulting situation is a lockout.<br />
TYPES OF DISPUTES<br />
Disputes are <strong>of</strong> two kinds: