GK
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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Why would employers and employees have conflicting interests within the employment relationship?
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Employers are required by management to minimise labourcosts within an organisation, while employees seek to gain the bestpossible return for themselves.
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Labour is a cost to the business and therefore employers seekto restrict wage growth while employees attempt to gain the bestpossible wage increase.
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Employers are reluctant to offer working conditions that are abovethe prescribed legal minimum guidelines.
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Employees often use their bargaining power and influence to disrupt the operations of a business.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -An employer and employee will be in conflict when the compensation paid to the worker is not sufficient to meet what are considered basic needs. For example, when public workers work for years without a raise, even to adjust for inflation, they can feel disgruntled and betrayed by their employer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Industrial dispute means any dispute of difference between employees and employers or between employers and workmen or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment of the terms of employment or the conditions of work of any person (The industrial Disputes Act 1947, Section 2K).
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