How Does Trade Unions Affect Management Policy

1.INTRODUCTION

In recent times, trade unions have emerged as the saviour for the employees working in the organisation. For this trade unions and the management has to interact to implement certain policies that will improve the welfare of the employees as well as achieve organisational goals.This sometimes lead to trade disputes and industrial disharmony. It is thus a worthwhile exercise to determine the various ways in which trade unions may influence the implementation of the management policies of an organization, and suggest ways of harmonizing management policies with workers objectives.

2.BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

2.1 Trade union is defined as any combination of workers or employees whether temporary or permanent for the purpose of

To maintain the dignity in labour and

To maintain standard working hours with standard renumeration equal to the output i.e. to stop or reduce much of human exploitation by the employer. Industrial disharmony and trade disputes in recent times have resulted into low productivity and loss of lives. This is however worthwhile exercise to know the different ways in which trade unions may effect the implementation of different management policies.

2.2 Management policies however, are the instruments used by the top management of any organisation (firm) in ensuring the problems being faced by the firm are managed properly and are solved within an acceptable time, efficiently and effectively. The problems are solved using good constraint good policies provide definite and as well as allow subordinates to make their own decisions with limits. Hence the members of the organisation are charged with the responsibility of operating the organisation as a system.

3.OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The objective of this project is to build further on our understanding of union

It was developed to accelerate power development in the country and its core business is the engineering, construction and operation of power generating plants.The backbone of NTPC is its human resource and it achieve organisational excellence through its human resources. There are over 1200 employees in NTPC so it has become necessary to develop a healthy work environment through cordial relations between workers and management. Thus, the role of trade unions emerged as of critical significance in the success of the power station.rade unions at NTPC give voice to employee problems and grievances before management ; these unions actively participate in discussions with management. These meetings are held time to time in which management and trade union representatives discuss and resolve several issues and implement the policies accordingly. Following policies were implemented by the management of NTPC after