1. Radical Marxist Perspective - Approaches to Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations

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Manu Melwin Joy
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Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. Approaches to Industrial Relations

4. Radical Marxist Perspective
• The radical perspective,
which is also referred to
as the Marxist
perspective, concentrates
on the nature of the
society surrounding the
organization.

5. Radical Marxist Perspective
• It assumes and emphasizes that
the organization exists within a
capitalist society where product
system is privately owned and
profit is the key influence on
company policy and control over
production is enforced
downwards by the owner’s
managerial agents.

6. Radical Marxist Perspective
• The Marxist general
theory of society
argues that:
– Class conflict is the
source of societal change
– without such conflict,
society would stagnate.

7. Radical Marxist Perspective
• The Marxist general
theory of society argues
that:
– Class conflict arises
primarily from the disparity
in the distribution of and
access to economic power
within the society.

8. Radical Marxist Perspective
• The Marxist general theory
of society argues that:
– The nature of the society’s
social and political
institutions is derived from
this economic disparity and
reinforces the position of the
dominant establishment
group.

9. Radical Marxist Perspective
• The Marxist general
theory of society argues
that:
– Social and political conflict
in whatever from is merely
an expression of the
underlying economic
conflict within the society.