Objectives of Industrial Relations

¢ To safeguard the interest of labor and management by securing the highest level of 
        mutual understanding and good will among all those sections in the industry which 
        participate in the process of production.

¢ To avoid industrial conflict or strike and develop harmonious relations, which are an 
        essential factor in the productivity of workers and the industrial progress ofna 
        country.

¢ To raise productivity to a higher level in an era of full employment by lessening the 
        tendency to high turnover and frequency of absenteeism.

¢ To establish and nurse the growth of an industrial democracy based on labor 
        partnership in the sharing of profits and of managerial decisions, so that individual 
        personality may grow for the benefit of the industry and of the country as well.

¢ To eliminate as far as possible and practicable, strikes, lockouts and gheraos by 
        providing reasonable wages, improved wages, improved living and working 
        conditions, said fringe benefits.

¢ To establish govt control of such plants and units that are running at a loss or in 
        which production has to be regulated in the public interest.

¢ Improvements in the economic conditions of workers in the existing state of 
        industrial managements  and political govt.

¢ Control exercised by the state over industrial undertaking with a view to regulating 
        production and promoting harmonious industrial relations.

¢ Vesting of a proprietary interest of the workers in the industries in which they are 
        employed.

¢ The main objective of industrial relations is to bring about minimization of conflict 
        and maximization of cooperation.

¢ It causes sound and healthy relations between employers and employees.

¢ It facilitates production and productivity by avoiding unhealthy atmosphere in the 
        industry.