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Discuss the view that industrial relations represents a redundant and anachronistic form of management and regulation.
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Discuss the view that industrial relations represents a redundant and anachronistic form of management and regulation. Over the last 20 years, the use of industrial relations (IR) as a method of management and regulation has become increasingly less prevalent. Trade union membership has steadily declined and the once solid ideal of collectivism now seems obsolete. The question of what has caused this decline has been the subject of a great deal of academic literature. Government legislation, macroeconomic conditions, a changing employment structure and more recently the rise of human resource management (HRM) have all been blamed for this trend, but the issue that appears central to this discussion is; has industrial relations become redundant and anachronistic or has it been made redundant and anachronistic? In order to discuss the issue of change within both industrial relations and the greater macro-economy we must first look briefly at where the field has come from,...
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