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Sharad Gangal
Executive Vice President – People Processes
19th November, 2016
Proactive
Employee Relations
Approach
Traditional IR
Trench Warfare
Collective Bargaining
Adversarial Relationship
Command &
Control
In liberalized India labor intensive industries have failed but
brain intensive industries have blossomed.
Current Reality
Employees are tilting
towards income
security
than job security
Looks like risk vs
reward does not work
for blue collared
employees
Diversity
Current Reality
Disparity of Income
is a stumbling block How to deal with
flexible workforce?
New Paradigm
We are living in the
era of democracy of
Aspirations
Is collective
bargaining still
relevant???
Hunger for
empowerment,
membership and
participation
Gen Y thinking
has penetrated
in blue collar
employees
ER business
values come to
fore
Employees are
the constituency
If You Want Engaged
Employees,
Let Us Break The Rules.
New Paradigm
By Francesca Gino
Proactive Approach
Viewing Unionized employees as Equal partners
Start Relations and not Dispute
Applying White Collar principles
Communication and Dialogue
Proactive Approach
Thought Partnership between the Management and Union
New landscape of Org Structure
Worker Participation – Financial Powers
Moving from sequence of manufacturing to rhythm of manufacturing
“If there is too big a gap
between what I earn and
what a blue-collar worker at
my company makes, it’s
going to create problems.” Roundtable with Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Rebien Sorensen, WPP CEO Martin
Sorrell, and Inditex CEO Pablo Isla
Source : Harvard Business Review November 2016
It is not about
“Telling for Compliance”
it is about
“Selling by Influence”
Discussion