Industrial relations involves managing the relationship between employers and employees. It encompasses phenomena inside and outside the workplace that determine and regulate the employment relationship. Maimunah Aminuddin defines industrial relations as "the relationship between workers and their employers within the work environment." Understanding industrial relations is important for various groups including workers to understand their rights, trade union leaders to effectively represent workers, managers to improve productivity and profitability, lawyers to competently advise clients, and human resources professionals to properly administer the employment system.

1. Presented by-
Ayisha Kowsar A
MBA

2. Industrial Relations

3. What is Industrial
Relations?
Industrial relations is the
management of the
relationship between
employers and employees

4. Definition IR
• Industrial relations encompasses a set of
phenomena, both inside and outside the workplace,
concern with determining and regulating
employment relationship

5. Maimunah Aminuddin defines
industrial relations,
“… as the relationship between workers and their
employers within the work environment.”

6. Learning objectives of IR
 Understand the different views of the employment
relationship and the interaction in an IR System.
 Explain the integral nature of the concept of conflict,
cooperation and regulations.
 Identify the importantce and difficulties of
comparing industrial relations in different countries.

7. Factors afecting IR
• Institutional factors.
• Economic factors.
• Scocial factors.
• Technological factors.
• Psychological factrs.
• Political factors.
• Enterprice-related factors.
• Gobal factors.
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1.3 The importance of industrial
relations
Several groups of people need to understand the theory and
practice of industrial relations as follows
1 Workers – to make them know their rights and obligations
under the employment laws, aware of the benefits can be
gained or risks might be faced by joining trade union and
develop healthy attitude towards workplace.
2 Trade union leaders – to enable them perform their roles
effectively in protecting workers from greedy employers.

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3 Managers – to ensure their effectiveness in dealing with
workforce, in improving productivity and increasing profitability
of the organisation.
4.Lawyers – to ensure their competence in giving advise to
their clients, in representing employers/unions and in
drafting legally enforceable employment contracts.

10. 5 Officers and executives in human resource and
industrial relations departments – to carry out
their job responsibilities particularly in improving
their human skills in order to administer the
system wisely .
6 Students – they are future workers, trade
unionists, managers, lawyers, officers/executives
and employers.