Second IIRA World Congress

1-4 September 1970, Geneva, Switzerland

President IIRA: B.C. Roberts

POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Rapporteur: John T. Dunlop

Papers:

Communication:

  • Labour relations and social political systems. Ussenin.

    INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE

    Rapporteur: Jean-Daniel Reynaud.

    Papers:

    • Productivity agreements, rationalisierungsschutzabkommen et accords sur l'emploi. Delamonte.
    • Social innovations in industrial relations. Furstenberg.
    • Industrial co-operation and technological change: A study of joint management-union committee in the American industry. Shirom.
    • Shifts in the philosophy, functions and structure of metropolitan employers' associations in the United States, 1890-1964. Wortman.

    Communication:

    • Inter-industry variations in strike proneness in India 1959-1967. Bharadway.

    EVALUATION OF MANPOWER POLICIES

    Rapporteur: Mrs. Z. Morecka.

    Papers:

    • Some neglected aspects of economic and manpower planning. Pang.
    • Manpower approach versus cultural approach to educational planning. Bodenhofer and Armbruster.
    • Manpower development in Tanzania. Olulo.
    • Reflections on employment opportunities in Latin America. Zaidi.
    • Manpower policy in the market economics. Rottenberg.
    • The role of the employment service in redeployment. Reid.
    • The relevance of surplus labor theory to the urban labor markets of Latin America. Miller.
    • Personnel recruitment and labour market problems of industrial organizations. Hamaker.
    • Some aspects of manpower utilization policies. Taigar.

    WORKERS PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT

    Rapporteur: F. Walker

    Papers:

    • Employee participation in Japanese industries. Odaka.
    • Workers' participation in management: Three Indian studies. Vaid.
    • Soviet workers' participation in management. Kapustin.
    • The industrial democracy project in Norway. Qvale.
    • Workers' self management in Yugoslav undertakings. Gorupic and Paj.

    Communications:

    • Role of job design in workers' participation in management. Fine.
    • Employees' participation in the management of municipal institutions in Denmark. Lund.
    • Workers' participation in the management of enterprises and Belgian law. Stroobant.
    • The organization survey feedback principle as a technique for encouraging workers' involvement in organization improvement.
    • The Belgian trade union movement and the problem of workers' control. Desolre.

    THE ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CENTRES

    Rapporteur: G. Somers.

    Papers:

    • The role and functions of industrial relations centres in France. Candau
    • The role and functions of industrial relations centres in Argentina and other South American countries. Macri.
    • The role and function of labour (industrial) relations centres. Hronsky.
    • Problems of industrial relations research in India. Joshi.