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* Manifestations of conflict Overt collective organised observable to all Covert individual unorganised less visible to the public eye * Conflict and employment relations * Manifestation of conflict can you add to these two lists over the next few weeks of classes? * Australia’s recent dispute record * Next week The organisation of work …. 学习动物精神 11、机智应变的猴子：工作的流程有时往往是一成不变的，新人的优势在于不了解既有的做法，而能创造出新的创意与点子。一味 地接受工作的交付， 只能学到工作方法 的皮毛，能思考应 变的人，才会学到 方法的精髓。 学习动物精神 12、善解人意的海豚：常常问自己：我是主管该怎么办才能有助于更好的处理事情的方法。在工作上善解人意， 会减轻主管、共 事者的负担，也 让你更具人缘。 * * Problems with union objectives - individual interests must be partly redefined to accommodate collective interest. The separation of workers into different work areas, or by different work tasks may divide their common interest. Especially if some work area or work tasks are defined as better than others. The webbs were fabian socialist who established LSE and coined the term collective bargaining. * ACCI – Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ‘ACCI supports a labour relations system that is characterised by decentralism and voluntarism … ACCI believes that only employers and employees can select the approach that best suits their particular circumstances…’ Specific ACCI policy objectives include-: ‘the promotion and freedom of choice for employers and employees… the active promotion and encouragement of the use of enterprise and individual agreements a reduction in the influence of awards and tribunals the encouragement of performance based remuneration’. BCA – The Business Council of Australia the BCA is an association of chief executives of leading Australian corporations with a combined national work force of more than 1.1 million people ACCI/BCA both keen supporters of decentralisation and deregulation. paradox is that employer bodies are ones to push for changes likely to undermine their own authority that is, they want the IR system more individualised and so unions are not as significant/necessary – don