The student bodies FIRE@X, The Forum for Industrial Relations at XLRI and SAPPHIRE, the Students’ Association for the Promotion of Personnel Management, Human Resources and Industrial Relations at XLRI, have been actively propagating the knowledge of Industrial Relations and HumanResources within and outside XLRI. This year, FIRE@X and SAPPHIRE are jointly organizing the National HR-IR conference on 3rd & 4th December 2016 at Ranchi.
The theme of this conference was Dynamics of HRIR: Realinging skills, systems and practices in the face of globalisation.Technological changes, generational changes and most importantly changes in the mindset of employees and employers have rendered the existing skills and systems in place archaic and somewhat obsolete. The challenge that HRIR professionals now face is to redevelop, redesign and realign these systems and practices to combat these changes.
Dr. Siddhartha Pandey (Group HRVP) of EMC Ltd was also a part of this astonishing event on 4th Decemebr 2016, he was in panel discussion member for the topic “Socio- Political & Econimical Implications of Globalsiation on the Labour Force”. The panel discussion was induced with the following honoray Prof. Jerom Joseph( Chair Prof, IR XLRI), Mr. Sumit Neogi ( Head Business HE Cipla Ltd), Prof EM Rao(XLRI0, Mr. Vasant Kumar N Hittanagi (Ministry of Labor, Karnataka), Mr. Chandraprakash Singh ( Presiednt-INTUC Bihar).
Further proceedings was with paper presentation and he was the Chairperson of the following Paper presenattion “Rewriting the Roles:Advancing Employment Relations in Work Enviornement” which focuses on New labour law reforms aimed at increasing the ease of doing business, coupled with changing workforce aspirations, decreasing influence of unions in various industries and several other factors, are testaments to the fact that employment relations in our country have changed drastically.
Abstract of Paper Presenation for reference To Enlist a few....
Understanding and Exploring Idiosyncratic Deals (IDeals) as a Mechanism for Customized Work Arrangements, Creating and Sustaining WinWin Negotiation Solutions for Both Employees and the Organization
Vijay Kumar S.
Doc. Student,
IIM, Kozhikode
Organizations in the current situation need to stretch beyond the traditional incentives and inducements to attract and retain valued employees. Flexible work arrangements are not new in workplace contexts and are influenced by societal trends, but have not largely reflected on how organizations could possibly be benefitted, especially when collective bargaining and role of unions in organizations have decreased. This paper looks at idiosyncratic deals (I-deals) as a mechanism of creating win-win strategy. I-deals are defined as “Idiosyncratic employment arrangements that are special terms of employment negotiated between individual workers and their employers (present or prospective) that satisfy both parties’ needs” (Rousseau, Ho, & Greenberg, 2006, p. 977). The paper provides an overview of I-deals and a new model is proposed to understand the process of I-deals from 3 parties. a) Successfully negotiated employees, b) employees who attempted negotiation but failed c) co-workers as third parties. The paper also takes a firm stance that I-deals are dynamic in nature unlike the description in the existing literature. Lastly, a new model is proposed to understand the consequences of failure to successfully negotiate Ideals by exploring organizational dissent and ingratiation.
Rethinking Industrial Relations: Relevance and Revival
Vinay Kumar
Ph.D Political Science,
ISEC Bangalore, Tata Steel Ltd.
Employment after 1990 can be observed two types of trends as fixed term employment for skill and knowledge workers in new formal economy (IT and ITes) and contractual employment for low skilled and manual workers in existing formal economy and informal sectors. Both trends have reduced scope for industrial relations. Human resource strategies look influential for knowledge workers and delegating responsibilities to contractors regarding contract workers. Trade unionism as crucial part of industrial relations looks failure along with government indifferent in both types of employment. This paper analyses these trends along with several issues related to industrial relations to enquire relevance and scope of revival in contemporary era. A solution for labour problems in USA, industrial relations considered as middle path between laissezfaire capitalism and socialist revolution in early decades of 20th century. After the Second World War, it gained popularity and contributed by several scholars. This paper acquaints these along with Indian version of industrial relations, where state has been paramount role. Mainly based on secondary sources and participant observant, the paper concludes that with reduced relevance emerging circumstances as dissatisfaction of knowledge workers with HR strategies and intensified movement of contract workers has scope for its revival.
Please find the newspaper edition of the event captured by the media , here a glimpse of the same.
With Regards............
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