Unit 3
Important Topics- Workers participation: principle, levels, objectives, importance; strategies
for successful participation, Collective bargaining: nature, techniques and skills.
Important Questions:
1. Why do workers participate in management? How do you visualize its future prospects?
2. What is worker’s participation in management? Evaluate the efforts made and the progress
achieved in this direction in Indian industry in recent years.
3. Critically examine industrial democracy.
4. “Constitutional positions are in favor of worker’s participation in management, but its
implementation requires effective strategies”. Discuss.
5. “The objective of worker’s participation has been to bring labour and management closer
and work for achieving organizational goals”. In this context, discuss the various reasons
responsible for the failure if worker’s participation schemes in India.
6. Worker participation in management in the present context of Indian trade unionism and
worker education can be a mixed blessing. Comment.
7. Explain Scanlon Plan.
8. Critically describe Walton and McKersie theory on bargaining strategies.
9. What do you understand by collective bargaining? Does it help in promoting industrial
harmony in a fast development country like India?
10. What are few prerequisites for a successful collective bargaining?
11. State the characteristics of collective bargaining and at what levels can it be raised?
12. Why collective bargaining is better than adjudication?
13. “Mutual trust in an organization is the main key to collective bargaining”. Comment.
14. Discuss the factors facilitating and hindering collective bargaining in the Indian Context.
What steps will you suggest for the promotion of collective bargaining?