Collective Bargaining Need and importance
Need:
Reaching a consensus on mutually advantageous terms and conditions of employment between management and workers is the fundamental need of collective bargaining.
to promote and preserve friendly, healthy working relationships between management and workers.
to safeguard the interests of the workers as well as those of the employer.
to ward against the outside, that is, government intrusions.
in order to advance industrial democracy.
Importance:
The benefits that collective bargaining provides to an organisation make it necessary and significant.
The following are the main ones:
Better understanding between the employer and the employees is developed via collective bargaining:
It gives the workforce and management a level playing field at the negotiating table. As a result, while the management receives a deeper understanding of the issues and goals facing the workforce, the workforce also learns more about the constraints and issues facing the organisation. Better mutual understanding between the two sides results from this.
It encourages industrial democracy.
In the negotiating process, the employer and the workers who are most familiar with their issues take part. Participation like this fosters the organization’s democratic process.
Both the employer and the workers gain from it:
The agreement reached via discussion is acceptable to the workers as well as the employer.
It is adaptable to the shifting circumstances:
Changes in job circumstances are a result of a changing environment. Organizational procedures must be adjusted to reflect the new circumstances. Collective bargaining is seen to be a preferable strategy among the various options for enacting changes in a more cooperative manner.
It makes it easier for choices reached via collective discussion to be implemented quickly:
A built-in mechanism for the prompt implementation of agreements reached during collective bargaining is the direct engagement of the employer and workers in the decision-making process.