The unitary perspective is based on the assumption that the organization is an integrated group of people with single authority/ loyalty structure and a set of common values, interests and objectives shared by all members of the organization.

1. Unitary Perspective - Approaches to Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations

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Manu Melwin Joy
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3. Approaches to Industrial Relations

4. Unitary Perspective
• The unitary perspective is
based on the assumption
that the organization is an
integrated group of people
with single authority/ loyalty
structure and a set of
common values, interests
and objectives shared by all
members of the organization.

5. Unitary Perspective
• Management’s prerogative
is regarded as legitimate,
rational and accepted and
any opposition to it is seen
as irrational.

6. Unitary Perspective
• The organization is
not regarded as a
them and us situation
– as Farnham and
Pimlott put it.

7. Unitary Perspective
• There is no conflict
between the interests of
those supplying capital to
the enterprise and their
managerial
representatives, and
those contributing their
labor.

8. Unitary Perspective
• The underlying
assumption of this view
is that the organizational
system is in basic
harmony, and conflict is
unnecessary and
exceptional.

9. Unitary Perspective
• This has two implications.
– Conflict is perceived an
irrational activity.
– Trade unions are regarded as
intrusions into the
organizations from outside
which compete with
management for the loyalty
of employees.

10. Unitary Perspective
• Managements clings to
this view because.:
– It legitimizes its authority role by
projecting the interests of
management and employees as
being the same and by
emphasizing managements role
of governing in the best interest
of organization as a whole.

11. Unitary Perspective
• Managements clings to
this view because.:
– It reassures managers by
confirming that conflict,
where it exists, is largely the
fault of the government
rather than management.

12. Unitary Perspective
• Managements clings to
this view because.:
– It may be projected to the
outside world as a means of
persuading them that
management’s decisions and
actions are right and the best in
the circumstances and that any
challenge to them is subversive.