Which among the following is best related with “Flander’s Approac

SOLUTION

The correct answer is option 1, i.e considers every business enterprise a social system of production and distribution, which has a structured pattern of relationships.

• Flanders, the exponent of Oxford Approach; also known as “Flander’s Approach” considers every business enterprise a social system of production and distribution, which has a structured pattern of relationships.
• The “institution of job regulation” is categorised by him as internal and external – the former being an internal part of the industrial relations system such as code of work rules, wage structure, internal procedure of joint consultation, and grievance procedure.
• He views trade unions as an external organisation and excludes collective agreements from the sphere of internal regulation. According to him, collective bargaining is central to the industrial relations system.
• Other approaches in Employer-Employee relationships are:
  • Giri Approach : According to Shri V.V. Giri, the late President of India, collective bargaining’s and mutual negotiations between management and labour should be used to settle industrial disputes. He suggested that there should be bipartite machinery in every industry and every unit of the industry to settle differences from time-to-time with active encouragement of Government.
  • Margerison – the Industrial Sociology Approach : G. Margerison, an industrial sociologist, holds the view that the core of industrial relations is the nature and development of the conflict itself. Margerison argued that conflict is the basic concept that should form the basis of the study of industrial relations.