IR Executive

A consciously coordinated social unit composed of two or more people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals.

The immediate responsibility supervisor is investigating the circumstances concerning the misconduct.

☛ Medical Benefit

☛ Sickness Benefit

☛ Disablement Benefit

☛ Maternity Benefit

☛ Dependents

☛ Funeral

Employee Engagement is variously known as Employee Ownership, Employee Motivation, employee Involvement, Commitment, Loyalty, etc.

Employee engagement means when employee is intellectually and emotionally bound with the organization and who feels passionate about its goals and is committed towards its values thus he goes to the extra mile beyond the basic job.

Industrial relations are the relations between employees, employers, government and trade unions within the organizational structure.

The industrial relations system is a system of relationship between all the parties involved. A sound IR system will create an environment conducive for organizational growth and labour welfare.

The main objectives of an Industrial relations system are:

☛ To protect the interest of employees and employers by building up a congenial relationship.

☛ To avoid the human conflicts which can harm the business, the employees and the economic growth of the country.

☛ To increase the productivity.

☛ To improve the economic conditions of the workers

☛ To reduce the number of industrial disputes like strikes, lock outs etc.

Wages means all remuneration capable of being expressed in terms of money. It includes house rent allowance but does not include:

☛ Value of house accommodation, supply of light, water, medical attendance

☛ Value of other amenity provided, if excluded by Govt. order

☛ Contribution to pension fund or Provident fund or Insurance

☛ Traveling allowance

☛ Special allowances incurred by the nature of employment

☛ Gratuity payable on discharge.

OD interventions are sets of structured activities in which selected organisational units (target groups or individuals) engage in a task or sequence of tasks with the goals of organisational improvement and individual development.

Personnel Management is widely used few years back. The main task of PM was to maintain personal records of the employees of the organization. It was just a job to maintain the records (Database), sometime PM use to take care of the recruitment and joining formalities but never expected beyond that.

Human Resource Management takes care of all the aspect, right from:

☛ Strategic planning

☛ Recruitment

☛ Joining formalities

☛ Induction

☛ Training

☛ Employee relationship

☛ Handling Employee Grievances

☛ Attrition

☛ Retention

☛ Exit Formalities

Wages means all remuneration capable of being expressed in terms of money. It includes house rent allowance but does not include

☛ 1.Value of house accommodation, supply of light, water, medical attendance

☛ 2.Value of other amenity provided, if excluded by Govt. order

☛ 3.Contribution to pension fund or Provident fund or Insurance

☛ 4.Traveling allowance

☛ 5.Special allowances incurred by the nature of employment

☛ 6.Gratuity payable on discharge.

Following are the benefits of having an effective IR system in place:

☛ Continuous production

☛ Continuous employment for all

☛ Smooth flow of income for workers and businessman

☛ Lesser number of disputes between employees and employers like strikes, lock outs, grievances etc.

☛ Higher level of motivation in the employees as they consider themselves to be a part of the organization

☛ Less wastage of time, man, machine and material

☛ Lesser cost of production

☛ Optimum utilization of resources leading to higher profits for employers and employees

☛ Economic growth of the society

Lay-off is a measure or compromising device to cope with the temporary inability of an employer to offer employment to a workman and to keep the industrial establishment in operation so that the worker need not fall back upon strike and the employer need not resort to closure or lockout.

A situation in which there is a temporary shortage of work and the employees are told there is no work for them but that management intends to recall them when work is again available.

Gratuity is a kind of benefit like the provident fund or pension. It is regarded as a legitimate claim which workmen can make and which in a proper case can give rise to an industrial dispute. Gratuity paid is intended to help the workmen after the retirement whether the retirement benefit is the result of the rules of the superannuation or of physical disability.

It is a reward for good, efficient and faithful service rendered for a fairly substantial period and it is not paid to the employee gratuitously or merely as a matter of bonus but for long and meritorious award.

Under the Act for the purpose of the retrenchment it is required that the workman must have been employed for a period of not less than twelve months and that during those twelve months he had worked for not less two hundred and forty days.

The employer is required to prepare a list of all workman in the particular category from which retrenchment is contemplated, arranged according to the seniority of service in that category. A copy of the list shall be displayed on the notice board in a conspicuous place in the premises of the establishment, at least seven days before the actual date of retrenchment.

A group is a collection of people who interact with one another, accept rights and obligations as members and who share a common identity.

A group includes:

☛ Formal social structure

☛ Face to face interaction

☛ Two or more persons

☛ Common fate

☛ Interdependence

☛ Self-definition as group members

☛ Recognition by others.

Adjudication means a mandatory settlement of an industrial dispute by a Labour court or a tribunal. Generally, the government refers a dispute for adjudication depending on the failure of conciliation proceedings.

Section 10 of the Industrial Dispute Act 1947, provides for reference of a dispute to Labour court or tribunal. The Act also lays down rules regarding the composition and powers of Labour courts and tribunal.

Job analysis is the process of studying and collecting information relating to operations and responsibilities of a specific job.

Job analysis is a systematic exploration of activities within a job. It is a basic technical procedure that is used to define duties and responsibilities and accountabilities of the job.

Collective bargaining is a negotiation between an employer or group of employers and a group of working people to reach an agreement on working conditions.

Collective Bargaining is a process of negotiation by collective action by a body of workers regarding their terms and conditions of service such as wage leave, norms of employment, gratuity, bonus and other benefits of the like nature.

In the Bargaining process, the main actors are employees, employers and their associations.

☛ Organizational development is a complex strategy intended to change the beliefs, attitudes, values, and structures of organizations so that they can better adapt to new technologies, markets, challenges.

☛ OD is achieved through interventions in the organization’s “Processes” using behavioral science knowledge.

☛ OD involves organizational reflection, system improvement, planning, and self analysis.

Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of that psychophysical system that determines his unique adjustment to his environment.

Personality usually refers to the distinctive patterns of behavior (Including thoughts and emotions) that characterize each individual’s adaptation to the situations of his or life.