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Social dialogue summary with notes from the lesson

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Social dialogue

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Universiteit Gent (UGent)

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trade unions
renault procedure
frames of references
social dialogue
social dialogue
employers organizations

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Universiteit Gent (UGent)
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Handelswetenschappen Personeels- En Organisatiemanagement
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Social dialogue

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1. Introduction
Social dialogue = attempt to pacify the employment relationship by institutionalizing the conflict

= attempt to rebalance unequal power relation through collective voice

= attempt to regulate the labor market, through collective bargaining

Employee & employer = connected
through employment relationship (kind
of contracts etc)

Social dialogue

- = an attempt to pacify the employment relationship by institutionalizing the conflict
- = an attempt to rebalance unequal power relation through collective voice
- = an attempt to regulate the labour market, through collective bargaining

2. Frames of references
= influences strongly how you perceive reality and how you act

Frame of reference = way in which a person perceives and interprets events by means of a
conceptual structure of generalizations or contexts, postulates about what is essential, assumptions
as to what is valuable, attitudes about what is possible, and ideas about what will work effectively

- Built on a series of assumptions
- Guides actors towards certain interventions and limits the possible interventions envisaged
by the actor

Most important differentiating factor  perception regarding the degree of divergence of interest
between employers and employees

,Ideology = set of beliefs and values that one wishes to spread and live by

2.1 One team: the unitarist view
employees and employers share the same interests

- a team working towards a common goal
o but they have different roles
- win-win for everybody

worker’s interest

- quite ambitious
- seek a kind of fulfilment, well-being and actualization
- develops the competences of the employee & that they can really use their talents to the
best of their ability

employer interest

- profit maximization
- having all their employees work to the best of their abilities, be creative and innovative &
provide high quality services
- management through consent
- ‘as a manager my door is always open’
o Not really open because they think conflict is a result of a miscommunication

,conflict

- abnormal
- conflict can and should be avoided
- attributed to individual misunderstandings & problems in communication
- in case of conflict  management should increase collaboration and understanding

voice

- direct, individual communication between the worker and his supervisor
- through direct consultations or open group formats
- individual voice is enough

trade unions

- troublemakers
- unnecessary given that interests are aligned
- no one best way to handle trade unions
o OR ignore them as much as possible
 Undermine their legitimacy without openly being confrontational
o OR incorporate trade unions
 Use them to better spread information

Power differences

- Unimportant
- Problems in power differences due to interpersonal relations or deficient leadership qualities
o Solved by management training, better human resource management &
organizational design

Role of the state

- Limited to protection of property & freedom of enterprise

Perspective mostly found in the discourse of many HR departments & HR literature

Scholars

- Mostly adhered to by industrial psychology, HR & organizational behavior scholars
- Keywords associated with unitarist view
o Employee commitment
o Employee engagement
o Organizational trust

Importance of trust

- Without it
o Many social interactions and cooperation would be seriously inhibited
- Gross majority of studies depart from a unitarist perspective in which trust is seen as the
normal state and conflict as being the result of misunderstandings or in other words a
pathology
- Trust is essential but is it

, o The normal state of things
o Something to be constructed and managed
o In the interest of the employer only

Critique

- Not realistic
o Conflicts are daily reality
o Ignores differences of interest and power
- Very individualist streak
o Ignores existence of any kind of collective interests of the employees
- Ignores the influence of context and institutions
- Main initiating actors is the management and the employer
- So a useful fiction
- Paternalistic

Examples

- Google
o Don’t be evil
o Do the right thing
o Gives their workers ample autonomy and nourishes a strong internal culture
o Through this policy, conflict does not exist in such a high-trust environment
 Could not avoid the emergence of conflict and collective organization at
Google
- Ford

Looking in a unitarist way

- Scientific management theory
o One-best way to organize production and the company
o Given the difference in competences between workers and managers, it are the
managers who will design this best way of doing things and the workers will execute
these prescribed tasks
- HRM
o Starts from the belief that by good procedures and work organization, employees
can find fulfilment and satisfaction in their jobs
o Open door policy signals that employees can always communicate their issues to
which a professional, fair and equitable HR department will respond

2.2 Two teams, the pluralist view
In any group there are subgroups with sometimes similar and sometimes diverging interests

- Work around common objectives BUT in same time have issues where their interests are
clearly different

Employee interest

- Beyond merely having an income
- Want to be heard (collectively) in the decision-making process

This pluralist perspective was for a long time the dominant approach to work and social dialogue

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