Answer to Question #231528 in Management for priya

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 Fiji'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

Some of the features of Unitary Theory of employment relations in Fiji's private sector employment include workers being flexible; individuals should be business process improvement oriented, multi- skilled and ready to tackle with zest and efficiency whatever tasks are required; the emphasis is on good relationships and sound terms and conditions of employment. Advantages

An advantage of unitary government are that it is a single and decisive legislative. Also, a unitary government is very simple system, and as such less costly to run. Another advantage of a unitary government is that the laws of the unitary system, unlike in a federation, are uniform because laws are made only by a single central government for the whole state. See the list of advantages below:

• In a unitary state, citizens only owe their allegiance to the central government. This could promote national unity.
• The unitary system is good for countries that are geographically smaller in size.
• There are no other levels of government that need to be funded by the state which makes it less expensive.
• The unitary system is more likely to engender harmony among the various ethnic groups in the country leading to internal stability.
• The unitary system allows for quick decision-making.
• The central government is directly responsible for the entire development of the country which makes development more likely to be even and uniform.

Disadvantages

A disadvantage of using this type of system is that it has slow government response. For example, there are no state defence forces that could be dispatched in cases of emergency. Troops would have to be mobilized by national authority. It is also easily loses track of local issues. Also, it is quite a divisive form of government where everyone is forced to compete with everyone else for priority. 

• Since all the powers are concentrated at the centre, the burden of work becomes too heavy.
• A disadvantage of a unitary system of government is the tendency to become dictatorial.
• There is hardly room for experiments to figure out the pitfalls and loopholes of policies rolled out by the government.
• Under some circumstances, the distribution of national resources might not be even, as some regions might be neglected for political reasons. In other words, some minority interests could be neglected.
• Many citizens under unitary governments are used to waiting for the central government to initiate and implement policies and this could stifle local initiatives.