· In this supplement the topic of industrial relations has been overviewed from an historical perspective, and within a political and economic framework. Contemporary movements towards the internationalization of management were discussed with particular attention to its implications for industrial relations strategy and procedure.
· The review indicates a trend towards building in strategies to manage employee relations and to pre-empt the need for industrial relations in the traditional sense. There is also a trend towards the evolution of decentralized strategies of industrial relations appropriate to business-specific/local needs and circumstances (that is, business unionism) and towards single-union rather than multiple-union representation. Union membership is on the decline, consistent with the move away from collectivist towards more individualistic philosophies within the UK economic world.
· There was a discussion about the nature of industrial relations disputes and the various forms in which it can be manifest. Collective bargaining is held to be a key concept in the pursuit of understanding the way industrial relations conflict is ‘contained’ and ‘managed’ (that is, the way in which conflict is institutionalized). The notion of productivity bargaining is also introduced as a reflection of the way in which the power balance has tipped more in favour of the employer as a source of employment, in recent years.
· The review moved into a discussion of the nature of inter-group conflict and offers various psychological explanations for how conflict comes about, as well as suggestions for how conflict can be pre-empted and/or managed. This also affords a discussion about the psychological basis of collective action – that is, how collective action is possible.
· The review ended with a discussion about the psychology of negotiation. The notion of integrative bargaining (that is, win–win bargaining) was discussed in terms of its implications for negotiation processes. Negotiation was also examined from a social action perspective, on the assumption that it provides the means by which social order is constructed and the forum in which organizational history is written.
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