The document discusses the objectives of industrial relations according to different authors. Nair and Nair cite three objectives: developing healthy employer-employee relations, maintaining industrial peace and high productivity, and developing industrial democracy. Nair and Nair also cite Kirkaldy, who outlines four objectives: improving workers' economic conditions, allowing state control over industries, socializing industries by making the state a major employer, and giving workers a proprietary interest in their industries.

1. Objectives of Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations

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3. Objectives of Industrial Relations
• Industrial relations is
not an objective
science. As salamon
argues, there are no
simple objective facts
in industrial relations.

4. Objectives of Industrial Relations
• Nair and Nair attribute three
objectives to IR:
– The development of healthy
employer – employee
relations.
– The maintenance of industrial
peace and high productivity.
– The development and growth
of industrial democracy.

5. Objectives of Industrial Relations
• Nair and Nair cite
Kirkaldy, according to
whom there are four
objectives for IR:
– Improvement of
economic conditions of
workers.

6. Objectives of Industrial Relations
• Nair and Nair cite Kirkaldy,
according to whom there
are four objectives for IR:
– State control on industries
for regulating production
and promoting harmonious
industrial relations.

7. Objectives of Industrial Relations
• Nair and Nair cite
Kirkaldy, according to
whom there are four
objectives for IR:
– Socialization or
rationalization of
industries by making state
itself a major employer.

8. Objectives of Industrial Relations
• Nair and Nair cite
Kirkaldy, according to
whom there are four
objectives for IR:
– Vesting of the proprietary
interest of the workers in
the industries in which
they are employed.