The Dynamics of Strategic Militant Managerialism: Analysis of a Strike?
Published: 2010
Author(s) Name: Jerome Joseph
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Abstract
The collectivisation efforts of employees evoke strong responses from managements seeking to survive in an uncertain and turbulent environment . The contours of these responses are explored through the analysis of a union mobilization initative of pilots of an Indian airline company. The pattern of response which emerges from this foray into contemporary industrial relations can best be characterized as strategic militant managerialism . The company has its own threefold compulsions revolving around commercial pressures, customer service conisderations and competitor actions in responding the way it did in the face of union mobilization efforts of the pilots . The union forming efforts are resisted through a variety of means and interventions based on the hard positional bargaining mode with all the consequencs for industrial relations processes as well as outcomes.
Keywords : Employees collective effort, Strategic Militant Managerialism
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