Answer to Question #231040 in Management for Sim

Question

As your country’s Employment Relations Manager of Ministry for Labour and Employment Relations, in an essay form write a non-biased report to your Minister. This is in response to some emerging or existing features of Unitary Theory of employment relations in your country’s private sector. Evaluate the features or emerging features of Unitary Theory of employment relations in your country’s private sector employment. What are the advantages, disadvantages and some of the major challenges that the three main actors are facing in the emerging or existing unitary environment? What are some of your recommendation(s), if any? Feel free to use other literatures to support your arguments and also provide relevant example(s) to justify your argument(s)’.

Answer 1

Unitary theory features play a significant role in industrial development and employee relations. It emphasizes policies concerning employees that the organization should focus on inspiring, motivating and mentoring them. Most employees have adopted the theory’s emerging features, including scientific management approaches and the use of technology (Bong et al., 2019). The advantages include positive employee’s relations, creates conducive work environments and enhances teamwork. It helps to develop collaborations towards achieving a common goal through unitary thinking.

The disadvantage is that the theory does not consider staff conflict; it is assumed that unitary thinking masks conflicts, but this often happens and affects organizational performance. For example, despite the unitary coordination, employees may fall in conflict, leading to disagreements, destruction of work environment, and performance resulting from sudden or none-consultative decision-making (Budd, 2020).  In recommendation, it is vital to communicate critical decisions down the hierarchy of employees on time to seek their options and ensure inclusion.

References

Bong, K. W., Tischler, N., Patel, R. B., Wollmann, S., Pryde, G. J., & Hall, M. J. (2018). Strong unitary and overlap uncertainty relations: theory and experiment. Physical review letters, 120(23), 230402. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.08112

Budd, J. W. (2020). The psychologistic of employment relations, alternative models of the employment relationship, and the OB turn. Human Resource Management Journal, 30(1), 73-83. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12274