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It is often suggested that we now enjoy "new industrial relations" in Britain - Discuss the extent to which industrial relations have been transformed in recent years and analyse the role played by management.
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It is often suggested that we now enjoy "new industrial relations" in Britain. Discuss the extent to which industrial relations have been transformed in recent years and analyse the role played by management. Method In discussing the extent to which industrial relations have been transformed in recent years, one is immediately forced to consider the term 'industrial relations'. Arguably, there is now a dominant paradigm of a pluralist kind, wherein employers and employees are understood to be roughly comparable entities in terms of power. Thus the process of negotiation is conventionally understood as one in which 'Employees and organisations have reciprocal obligations and mutual commitments' (Strebel 1996:87), and that mutually advantageous outcomes are both possible and desirable. Here though I offer a rather different interpretation of industrial relations, one which is critical of the pluralist paradigm, and which seeks to explain why industrial relations have taken the turn they...
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