Maintaining positive

Abstract

Maintaining positive work-force relationships includes in effective labor-management relations and making appropriate responses to current employee issues. Among the major current employee issues are protection from arbitrary dismissal, drug and alcohol abuse, privacy rights and family maters and they impact work. In our paper we discus two problems: first, the meanings of industrial democracy; second, the three principal operational concepts of industrial democracy (1) industrial democracy through collective bargaining, (2) integrative representative industrial democracy, (3) industrial democracy through direct “shop-floor participation”. Also we discus about workers’ ownership of the enterprise and some general landmarks towards industrial democracy.general management, industrial democracy