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Multidisciplinary Labour Relations Insights

This document outlines different perspectives on labour relations including: - Multidisciplinary looks at different disciplines separately while interdisciplinary integrates them. - Economists see labour as an exchange of wages for work. - Lawyers ensure fairness and balance between employers and employees. - Sociology examines social aspects like unions and working conditions. - Psychology studies human behavior at work including performance, careers, and well-being. - Management considers decision-making using quantitative and qualitative data with ethics in mind.

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Multidisciplinary Labour Relations Insights

This document outlines different perspectives on labour relations including: - Multidisciplinary looks at different disciplines separately while interdisciplinary integrates them. - Economists see labour as an exchange of wages for work. - Lawyers ensure fairness and balance between employers and employees. - Sociology examines social aspects like unions and working conditions. - Psychology studies human behavior at work including performance, careers, and well-being. - Management considers decision-making using quantitative and qualitative data with ethics in mind.

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LARM 31

STUDY UNIT 2
Learning Objectives – Chapter 2
Understand when labour relations is inherently multidisciplinary
The difference between multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary labour
relations
Different voices and perspectives on labour relations
Application of the different perspectives/approaches on labour
relations cases which focus on the South African labour perspective
Introduction
Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary
Multidisciplinary is the combination of different disciplines or
perspectives in approaching a field of study
Interdisciplinary is the study of how the different perspectives can be
integrated accordingly
Economist’s perspective

• Economics concerns itself with the question of humankind’s


unlimited wants and limited means

• Labour economics - this field looks at the exchange of labour for


wages
LAW PERSPECTIVE
Lawyer’s perspective

• This perspective is concerned with equity and justice and the way that
these are established, adjudicated and brought to life in the workplace
• How the conflicting interests of both the employer and employee are
balanced
• How common law deals with and accommodates developments in the
legal relationships of employers, employees and their organisations
• Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,1996 (sec 23)
• Basic Conditions of Employment (BCEA)
• Quasi-judicial tribunal, Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and
Atbitration (CCMA)
Industrial/economic sociology
• To what extent is the economy embedded in social relations?
Focal areas
• Social movement unionism – an appeal to workers that goes beyond the
employment relationship to the totality of their lives, as consumers, citizens, family
members and women
Decent work
ILO definition p 62.
The precariat
• Socially excluded workers
• Emergent economic class that has massive transformation potential
Ecosocialism/Eco-Marxism
• The environment is also key to forming an understanding of how resources are
deployed in the production of goods and services
Industrial/organisational psychology
• The study of human behaviour within a work context
Sub-divisons
- personnel psychology area is concerned with individual differences
in behaviour and behaviour and performance within the workplace
- Organisational psychology focuses on the behaviour of employees at
organisational level and the fit between individuals and the
organisation
- Career psychology concerns itself with career aspirations and
mobility of employees
Conti.
-Ergonomics is the interaction between humans and machines or
systems
Conti.
-employee and organisational well-being is concerned with the overall
mental well-being of employees
Conti.
-consumer psychology/behaviour concerned with how consumers
behave
Management Perspective
• It is specifically concerned with decision-making

Quantitative vs qualitative approaches


• This helps a manager to make a decision where the manager can rely
on quantitative data or a more subjective qualitative alternative
approach

Ethics
• Decisions made are concerned with what is moral and what is fair
Conti.
Judgement
• The cognitive aspects of the decision-making
- the availability heuristic
- the representative heuristic
- the confirmation heuristic
- The effect heuristic
Morality
Is a central tenet of ethical behaviour
Conti.
Bounded rationality and decision-making
- descriptive models seek to understand how decisions are made ,
while prescriptive provide an optimal solution

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