What is Dunlop model of industrial relations?
Dunlop’s model identifies three key factors to be considered in conducting an analysis of the management-labor relationship: Environmental or external economic, technological, political, legal and social forces that impact employment relationships.
What are the main features of an industrial relations system according to Dunlop?
Dunlop’s industrial relations system comprises actors (employers (including managers), employees and government (including agencies) and the collective institutions, all bound together by a shared ideology to make the system work, and a shared set of contexts, (market, technological, social, economic, political).
Who are the key players in Malaysian industrial relations?
Malaysian industrial relations Workers are represented by the Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) and the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (CUEPECS), while employers are represented by the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF).
What is Dunlop’s theory?
Dunlop’s System Theory (1958) • An industrial relations system at any one time in its development is regarded as comprised of certain actors, certain contexts, an ideology which binds the industrial relations system together and a body of rules created to govern the actors at the workplace and work community.
What is the systems approach to industrial relations?
The system approach was developed by J. P. Dunlop of Harvard University in 1958. According to this approach, individuals are part of an ongoing but independent social system. The behaviour, actions and role of the individuals are shaped by the cultures of the society.
Who are the main actors in industrial relations?
v) The important actors (parties) of industrial relations are employees or their trade unions, employers and their associations and government.
Who is fourth actor of industrial relations?
Besides the three principal traditional actors: workers and their unions, managers/employers, and the government, there is emergence of new fourth actor i.e. consumers and community in the emerging dimensions of industrial relations.