Course Description

Rationale:

Collaboration thrives on Participation. This becomes the hallmark for Industrial Democracy which is the critical factor driving successful partnerships in our organizations. The establishment of creative partnership in turn generates healthy organizational bottom line upon which the survival of organizations are built. Without creatively interfacing all the critical elements constituting the workplace in sustainable and successful interaction, organizational growth suffers while the capacity of leaders or organizational drivers to ensure that these elements maintain a healthy collaborative relationship ensures that the organization continues to grow systematically and sustainably.

Critical is the need for a framework to be created which will seek the mediation of the diverse interests and objectives within organizations in a more coherent manner towards achieving the overall objectives of the larger organization.

The knowledge gap that exists especially amongst Industrial Relations practitioners about the forces that shape attitudes of each other in our respective organizations makes it imperative that we organize this workshop knowing that once this gap is filled, social partners will have a better grasp and understanding of each other’s attitude and will be less likely to respond negatively.

The aim of this workshop is therefore to create solid awareness amongst different groups in the workplace of their roles in shaping positive organizational dynamics. The need to understand the place of interpersonal relations amongst all the groups and individuals within given organizations in their overall strategy for success within the understanding that creative partnership in the workplace works best for all the groups and individuals within it.

Course Objective:

At the end of the course, participants will be able to;

• Understand the Need to act together effectively in the workplace
• Build workplace synergy
• Raise consciousness amongst workplace elements on their roles in workplace success through collaboration
• Build team spirit amongst management and workers
• Create a more harmonious workplace relation
• Create understanding of workplace behaviour
• Create workers and management with better attitude to relations
• Make collaboration the bedrock for workplace relations
• Ensure a sustainable organizational growth

Course Content:

• Industrial Democracy: An overview
• Trade union Objectives
• Organizational objectives
• Strategies for successful Management/Union engagement
• Tools for Managing workplace relations
• Workplace Perceptions: An understanding
• Effective Leadership in workplace relations
• Challenges to workplace partnership
• Factors enabling collaboration in the Workplace
• Collective Bargaining for workplace synergy
• Stakeholders expectations and workplace partnership
• Tools for creating effective workplace partnership
• Industrial Harmony: the role of partners
• How Organizations Behave
• Factors shaping interpersonal relations in the Workplace
• Factors influencing people at work
• Building effective teams in the workplace

Target audience:

The programme is designed for Trade Union Leadership, Human resource Managers, Employee Relations Managers and Union Members

Delivery Method:

Lectures, discussions, syndicate work, case studies, role – play and exercises. Audio – Visual aids will be used to reinforce these training and learning methods.

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Course Fee: 

Course Duration: 1 Week

Course Date:   November 21st-25th, 2022