Determinants of Employee Relations Climate in Public Sector Undertakings

Abstract

Employee relations are the medium through which both employees and the company mutually co-operate for the maximum satisfaction of the economic, social and psychological wants ofall people. The objectives of the study are: (1) to analyse the employee relations climate existing at various levels and (2) to identify the various employee attitudes which determines the employee relations in an organised public sector company. It is concluded that Working conditions, Level of supervision, Communication, worker participation, inter personal relationship etc., induce the employee relation climate in the organisation. By improving these factors, aconducive climate can be achieved. Effective and frequent Counseling for the employees and frequent meetings in all levels of the organisation would also influence the climate, which would result in improved climate and productivity. tOr P. Ganesan is Assistant Professor at the College of Management Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology (Deemed University). Vellore. tV. Samuel Rajkumar is Ph 0 Research Scholar, College of Management Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology (Deemed University), Vellore. tV. Saravanan is MBA Alumnus, College of Management Sciences, Veilore Institute of 'Technology (Deemed University), Vellore. MANAGEMENT &LABOUR STUDIES Employer and employee relations constitute one of the most delicate and complex problems of modern industrial society with growing prosperity and rising wages, workers have gained higher living wages, more education, sophistication and generally greater mobility career pattern have <:hanged, as .growing proportions have been compelled to leave the farms and become wage and salary earners under factory conditions. Large numbers of men, women and children have concentrated in few urban areas, under mass ignorance drenched in poverty and possessing conflicting ideologies.The Hawthorne studies conclusively showed, by quantitative measurements that normal interactions ofworkers at work always create a social net work called the 'informal organization' which exerts tremendous influence over workers

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“…The results show that the climate is highly correlated with all components of effectiveness. Ganesan et al, (2002), studied the 'Determinants of Employee Relations Climate in Public Sector Undertakings.' The study revealed that by improving factors like working conditions, level of supervision, communication and worker's participation etc.…”