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Employment Relations

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INTRODUCTION

Over the years employment issues have raised concerns almost in every country in the world . The issues include available job opportunities the manner of recruitment into jobs , remuneration , conflicts in job places arising from poor management and poor employee employer relationships . The declining job opportunities have given most employers the opportunity to take advantage of the high labour turnover by frustrating their employees . As employers seek to maximize their profits , some of them have done this at expense of their employees by

br providing poor working environment or low salaries and wages that are way below the conventional standards . Nowadays most employers have adopted policies of providing employment on contract basis , temporary or even make them part-time jobs to avoid any permanent binding contract and the disadvantages (to the employer ) that go with it

Most company managers do not take into account the best management strategies or policies that would result in employee motivation and as a result an increase in employee performance . Two common approaches have been developed to explain some management strategies employed by most employers . They are the pluralism approach and unitary approach and both give have divergent views on management

THE PRINCIPLES OF UNITARY AND PLURALISM APPROACHES

Unitary approach assumes that management staff and other employees of the company have common objectives , interests and purposes and therefore work together in harmony in to achieve the common goals of the company . According to this approach , there should only be one...