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Labour Laws Amit Kumar Sharma, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 2: Labour Laws, Industrial Relations and Human
Resource Management

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
2.1 Conceptual Basis of Labour
2.2 HRM: Implications for Industrial Relations Management

2.3 The Theory of the Conflict between Industrial Relations and Human Resource
Management
2.4 Labour Laws Orientation

2.5 Summary
2.6 Keywords
2.7 Review Questions
2.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
l z Explain the conceptual basis of labour
l z Discuss the HRM and its implications for industrial relations management
l z Get an overview of the theory of the conflict between industrial relations and human
resource management
l z Describe the labour laws orientation

Introduction

The basis of changing the practice of industrial relations management from a reactive to a strategic
mode could revolve around the following concepts and propositions which are based on the
concept of alienation is the key to the analysis of condition of wage labour given the reality of
contradiction-ridden organisational and societal totalities. The concept of alienation is also the key
to a better understanding of the interface between human resources development and industrial
relations. Any consideration of change from reactivity to strategic proactivity, in the process of
considering the effect of the concept of human resources development on industrial relations
should, therefore, be founded on the evolution of strategies oriented to the disalienation of direct
producers. The purpose of this Unit is to enable the students to comprehend basic expressions.
At the end of this unit you should be able to understand the concept of Labour Laws, Industrial
Relations and Human Resource Management.

2.1 Conceptual Basis of Labour

The notion of totality refers to the axiom that any issue, any problem, any practice, any subsystem
should be seen in perspective. A blinkered approach could not only distort but could even
distract the attention from the core of the problem. The concept of totality has two dimensions

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