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Sharad Gangal

Executive Vice President – People Processes

19th November, 2016

Proactive

Employee Relations

Approach

Traditional IR

Trench Warfare

Collective Bargaining

Adversarial Relationship

Command &

Control

In liberalized India labor intensive industries have failed but

brain intensive industries have blossomed.

Current Reality

Employees are tilting

towards income

security

than job security

Looks like risk vs

reward does not work

for blue collared

employees

Diversity

Current Reality

Disparity of Income

is a stumbling block How to deal with

flexible workforce?

New Paradigm

We are living in the

era of democracy of

Aspirations

Is collective

bargaining still

relevant???

Hunger for

empowerment,

membership and

participation

Gen Y thinking

has penetrated

in blue collar

employees

ER business

values come to

fore

Employees are

the constituency

If You Want Engaged

Employees,

Let Us Break The Rules.

New Paradigm

By Francesca Gino

Proactive Approach

Viewing Unionized employees as Equal partners

Start Relations and not Dispute

Applying White Collar principles

Communication and Dialogue

Proactive Approach

Thought Partnership between the Management and Union

New landscape of Org Structure

Worker Participation – Financial Powers

Moving from sequence of manufacturing to rhythm of manufacturing

“If there is too big a gap

between what I earn and

what a blue-collar worker at

my company makes, it’s

going to create problems.” Roundtable with Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Rebien Sorensen, WPP CEO Martin

Sorrell, and Inditex CEO Pablo Isla

Source : Harvard Business Review November 2016

It is not about

“Telling for Compliance”

it is about

“Selling by Influence”

Discussion