Discuss some of the bargaining forms And tactics

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A collective bargaining process generally consists of four types of activities- distributive bargaining, integrative bargaining, attitudinal restructuring and intra-organizational
bargaining. Distributive bargaining: It involves haggling over the distribution of
surplus. Under it, the economic issues like wages, salaries and bonus are discussed.
In distributive bargaining, one party’s gain is another party’s loss. This is most
commonly explained in terms of a pie. Disputants can work together to make the
pie bigger, so there is enough for both of them to have as much as they want, or
they can focus on cutting the pie up, trying to get as much as they can for themselves. In general, distributive bargaining tends to be more competitive. This type
of bargaining is also known as conjunctive bargaining.
Integrative bargaining: This involves negotiation of an issue on which both the
parties may gain, or at least neither party loses. For example, representatives of
employer and employee sides may bargain over the better training programme or
a better job evaluation method. Here, both the parties are trying to make more of
something. In general, it tends to be more cooperative than distributive bargaining.
This type of bargaining is also known as cooperative bargaining.
Attitudinal restructuring: This involves shaping and reshaping some attitudes like
trust or distrust, friendliness or hostility between labor and management. When
there is a backlog of bitterness between both the parties, attitudinal restructuring
is required to maintain smooth and harmonious industrial relations. It develops a
bargaining environment and creates trust and cooperation among the parties.
Intra-organizational bargaining: It generally aims at resolving internal conflicts.
This is a type of maneuvering to achieve consensus with the workers and management. Even within the union, there may be differences between groups. For
example, skilled workers may feel that they are neglected or women workers may
feel that their interests are not looked after properly. Within the management also,
there may be differences. Trade unions maneuver to achieve consensus among the
conflicting groups

Titany answered the question on December 3, 2021 at 05:58

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