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Management & Union Partnership

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  HR MANAGEMENT AND UNION RELATIONSHIP.   Management & Union Partnership: Management and Unions in the past have always looked at each other as competitors (Dhal, 2015). In the context of the modern-day it has been identified by many researches, that management and the unions can gain more advantage working together than working against each other (Rau, 2012) . Most of the new generation investors have opted to work with the unions to achieve a common goal and it has proven to be productive (Meardi, 2007). At the same time trade unions have begun to shed their past robes and be practical and moved from distributive bargaining to productivity bargaining. In some firms trade unions came to the forefront of firm turnaround and even that union acquired quality recognition (Sundar, 2017) . New union bodies choose to co-operate with management by tapping its membership for hard-to-access information about the work process and their preferences, as well as to co-ordinate ...
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HRM-Employee Relations

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  HRM-Employee Relations: Hagos & Zewdie (2018) suggest that the progress of any organisation is hinged on the input made by the employees. Essentially, employees are involved in the utilisation of other resources such as technology, finance, information and other managerial tools in the accomplishment of organisational goals and objectives (Arimie & Oronsaye, 2020) . Employee relations is described as organisation's concerted efforts to maintain a conducive working environment for a positive relationship with its employees through communication (Tewari & Kumar, 2019) . Employee relations concepts to maintain the relationship between employees and the organisation as explained in the Video 1, by Gregg Lindberg (2017): Fairness and consistency in treatment, effective communication and documentation of employment actions. Video 1: HR Basics: Employee Relations. (Source: GreggU. 2017) Employer-employee relations is concerned with the provision of information to emp...
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Importance of Unions

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  HR MANAGEMENT AND UNION RELATIONSHIP.   Importance of Unions: A trade union is an group of workers or employees who have united to achieve common goals in areas such as in working conditions and protecting and promoting their mutual interests through collective action (Shrestha, 2012) . At the organisation level, Budd et al (2010) , stated that unions not only provide employee voice, but that this collective voice is reasonably exceptional to exit and individual voice because of collective, majority-based decision-making. Much of the traditional research has therefore focused on analysing the degree to which labour unions affect compensation, benefits, and productivity (Bennett & Kaufman, 2007). The union also is involved through consultation in the development, implementation, the review, and the modification in anything that concerns its members (Moeti-lysson & Ongori, 2014) . With all the above new avenues, unions primary goals are protecting employees fro...
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