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    PT – Corporatist's

    Theory of ER
    Jone F. Lako
    MG315
    MPAD, SBM, USP
    Laucala Campus
    Main Features of
    Pluralist Theory
    ASPECT PLURALIST PERSPECTIVE
    • Every workplace contains individuals with variety of different interests,
    General aims and aspirations.
    philosophy • Power is evenly defused (no party dominates) amongst the main
    bargaining groups

    Role of the • Regarded as the impartial garden of the public interest


    state • Protect the weak and restrain the power of the strong

    • Not to expect blind obedience or suppress any idea or aims that


    Role of conflict their own.
    management • Reconcile conflicting opinions & keep within bounds not to destroy
    the organization

    • Legitimate representatives of employees interest


    Trade Union • Right to challenge the right to manage
    (Source: Bray et al, 2006)
    Industrial • Inevitable and legitimate consequences of variety of interest or loyalty
    conflict of workers
    Corporatist Theory of
    Employment Relations
    • Contributed to PT by examining the role of
    governments in a process of political
    exchange with organized labor & capitalists
    representatives (Crouch, 1992, 1993; Kelly,
    2002)
    • Called for more active State involvement in
    (social) partnership with the representatives of
    capital and labor with some measures of
    tripartite (3 main actors) decision making
    structures
    By J. Lako 5/19/2022 3
    Corporatist Theory of
    Employment Relations
    • This contribution believes in 3rd party’s active
    participation & intervention
    • Employers association (EA as employers’ representatives)
    and trade union (TU as workers representatives) bodies
    help the State to administer agreed policies.
    • The rationale behind the involvement of the
    representatives of the bipartite parties is due to the
    fact that they have control & influence over their
    members.

    By J. Lako 5/19/2022 4
    Corporatist Theory of
    Employment Relations
    • Promote high level of state involvement
    – State to pass ER legislation to protect
    workers rights & interests
    – Enforce more legislation
    – Provide framework for solving employment
    disputes

    By J. Lako 5/19/2022 5
    Corporatist Theory of
    Employment Relations
    • Promote high level of state involvement
    – State to enforce more legislation
    – Why?
    ▪ Unequal distribution of power
    ▪ Employer is believed to be the big pressure
    group
    • Should not be left alone
    • Any wrong decision will affect national economy
    • Solution – tripartism
    By J. Lako 5/19/2022 6
    Corporatist Theory of
    Employment Relations
    • 3 level corporatism (Tripartism)
    – Global tripartism
    ▪ ILO
    – Macro tripartism
    ▪ Tripartism @ national level e.g. Germany & Sweden
    Co-orditermination
    – Meso tripartism
    ▪ Tripartism @ industry/sectoral level e.g. UK voluntary &
    Australia compulsory arbitration
    – Micro tripartism
    ▪
    By J. Lako Consultation @ enterprise level e.g. Japan
    5/19/2022 7
    Corporatist Theory of
    Employment Relations
    • Corporatist countries;
    • Sweden (Akan, 2006; Hammarstom & Nilsson, 1998),
    • Denmark (Akan, 2006; Gill, Knudsen, & Lind, 1997) and
    • Germany (Akan, 2006; Hassel, 1999).
    • A +ve impact of corporatism when actors believed & acted in
    good faith putting the interest of the nation as their own,
    • Germany, being apolitical (Keller, 2004).
    • It was the same principle that laid the foundation for labor-
    management cooperation and consultation (L-MCC),
    • ‘Swedish model’ (Hammarström, Huzzard, & Nilsson, 2004),
    • Which Fiji’s ERA 2007 adopted (Lako, 2008).

    By J. Lako 5/19/2022 8
    Fiji’s model of Corporatism

    • 1976 – 1984 by the Mara Government

    By J. Lako 5/19/2022 9
    Contributors of the Pluralist
    Theory of I/E Relations
    Founder(s) Approaches Contribution
    Industrial The system consist of three components;
    John Relations Input (actors, ideology & context), process
    Dunlop Systems (conversion) and output (body of rules i.e.
    model procedural & substantive & formal or
    informal)
    Emile The state’s more active role in directing the
    Durkheim Corporatist activities of predominantly privately owned
    industries in partnership with the
    representatives of capital & labor.
    Commons Institutionalist Formal and informal rules are a prime
    & the determinate of social relations at work
    Webbs
    Paul Neo- The broad (complex) approach to rules and
    Edwards institutionalist regulation

    By J. Lako 5/19/2022 10
    “No surprises”

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