TUTORIAL 4 WEEK 5: Employer Strategy and Employer Representation
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Managers are paid to manage and they should be free to do that without interference. Critically evaluate in
regards to one aspect of the Employment Relationship.
Introduction:
Key ideas
to introduce
the essay
Union involvement in Employment Relations is fundamental in the role of management
as it expects to influence so that managers lean less towards enforcing and controlling
and more toward persuasion and co-ordination. This is supported by the pluralist
perspective were is believed that conflict should not be overlooked but manage
effectively through stakeholder participation (Hunter 1998: 560), embracement of a wider
array of employee relations policies (Gennard and Judge 2002: 56), and it constantly
brings into line individual and organisational interest to employment
relations(Badigannavar and Kelly 2005)
Unions help prevent the abuse of manager’s power on ordinary workers and promote
collectivism, participation and democracy. Unions pressure employers to improve the
