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"Management strategy towards collective bargaining is now characterised by decentralisation and flexibility." Discuss. The 1980's brought with it a major shift in traditional industrial relations. In the 1970's there was a trend in management towards greater acceptance of pluralism and collectivism in response to the power of trade unions and government corporatist strategies. Industry wide agreements on pay were the main feature of collective bargaining. The aim of collective bargaining was to create a political institution to provide a means of bringing together at least temporary reconciliation of the divergent interests of employers and employees. In this way a socially stable working environment could be achieved through this wide spread consensus, facilitating the employer's aim of eliciting labour productivity and the macroeconomic objectives of the country (if the government involved). However the changing political and economic environment of the late 70's and early 80's brought with it a more unitarist and...

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