What reasons do you to attribute to the fact that Industrial relation skills which was considered as one of the most desired and pre requisite skill for any HR person to succeed, has now become almost extinct?
VS I believe that Industrial Relations (IR) skills are NOT extinct. But those skills are required of a different level and proficiency. People think of IR skills as ‘essential skills to manage adversarial stances’ in the organisation. Modern day organisations believe that they treat all employees as ‘we are all one.’ (Whether such a belief is practiced or not is a good subject for research). Therefore, they think the traditional IR skills are not required and are useless. Moreover, with the ‘extinction’ of unions, it is possible to run organisations unchallenged. Now the IR skills are required to influence positively all employees.
The IR skills are not extinct if you consider that influencing a group of employees with...
