Does Trade unions of government sector hassle Learning organization concept in Sri Lanka

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 Does Trade unions of government sector hassle Learning organization concept in Sri Lanka



Overview

                Concerns about organizational culture, management and administrative challenges, problems with working conditions, employee demands, and political needs are all grounds for trade union activity. Many working hours could be lost as a result of these fraternity acts, thus impacting the effectiveness of the business. In most cases, trade unions represent employees in industrial relations.

What is trade Union

Employees have less bargaining power than employers when it comes to employment contracts. Employees form trade unions and present their demands to management as a collective. As a result, employees' power is increased through trade unions. Various definitions exist for trade unions.

Trade unions are non-profit organizations formed by employees or employers to advocate and protect their interests through collective bargaining (Aswathappa, 2005).

 Concept of Learning organization

             Modern economics has focused on the formation, development, and implementation of strategic plans due to recent modernization processes with new technologies within the modern business environment, the formation of a knowledge-based economy, intensification of business entity restructuring processes, effective use of intellectual potential and accumulation of intellectual capital in enterprises, and thus the revision of the conceptual foundations of strategic planning. Recent enterprise models have characteristics that show they maximize the concept of a learning organization to optimize its activities.As a result of creative uses of human skills and information, modern businesses obtain a competitive advantage. While many firms connect with the concept of learning organizations, not all managers understand or misunderstand what it entails. Currently, the training organization is viewed as a managerial tool. A contemporary organization's success depends on its ability to recognize and pursue innovative ways of doing things (Klak, 2021).


Figure 1: The organization's learning process (Senge, 2004)



How Trade union affected to Organization

               Human Resources Employee and Labor Relations Management is responsible for handling "Labour Relations" or "Labour-Management Relations," which are the contacts between management and labor unions. Industrial relations can be defined as the three-way relationship that exists between employers, employees represented by trade unions, and the government, which employs legislation to address disputes between employers and employees. Industrial relations has been characterized in a variety of ways by various scholars (Fernando, 2020).

 

Figure 1:Industrial Relations System ((Fernando, 2020)


How learning organizations concept effect to organization

              A learning organization is one that requires all of its employees to be told in order to rework both the corporate and the operating environment. This is typically due to continuous acquisition of information and abilities in planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling; but, it is also due to people's preparation for corporate management job and the development of individual managerial skills. Acquiring new or improving current qualifications will have a significant impact on a large group of employees' professional and social advancement, the prestige of a brand new profession, and, as a result, success in a variety of economic areas in such firms. It's becoming commonplace to say that the organizations that will be able to compete consciously in the future will be those that figure out how to harness human engagement and learning opportunities at the most fundamental levels, as well as those whose learning rate is faster than their environment's rate of change. One of the problems that the modern organization poses to the employee is the continuing need to learn, obtain information, and adapt. the idea that individual development is characterized by change, and that learning is a constant process of collecting new information (Klak, 2021).


Trade unions of government sector and Learning organization concept in Sri Lanka

             In the state, government sector trade unions are seen as troublemakers who refuse to evolve with the times and are largely affected by politics. In every government sector, there are dozens of labor unions that rely on political needs. The Sri Lankan government has become inefficient, low-productivity, and non-profitable as a result of this situation.

 For Examples:

 The nurses' union at Sri Jayewardenepura National Hospital went on strike in 2018 over the implementation of a fingerprint attendance system (Kantharvel , 2018).

Teachers in Sri Lanka's public schools are on strike, demanding a pay hike over the web learning method, but they are also protesting new developments and political abuses behind the scenes (Teacher-Student-Parent Safety Committee, 2021).    

                According to the Sri Lankan Labour Department, there are over 1500 trade unions in the country. There have been significant industrial disputes between 1995 and 2015. Thousands of employees were participating in labor union actions, which resulted in a considerable number of man-days lost each year. As a result, trade union disputes have a significant negative impact on the productivity of Sri Lanka's labor force, putting the country's economy at risk (Fernando, 2020).


 Conclusion

    Trade unions have a negative impact on the government sector when it comes to introducing and adapting new concepts, technology, and structures since they work on a distinct agenda from the new learning culture. As a result, the vast majority of government agencies remain inefficient and underproductive.


 References

Fernando, 2020. Trade Unions and Their Impact on Productivity: A Review of Sri Lankan Context from 1995 to 2015. Sri Lankan Journal of Human Resource Management, 10(2), pp. 10-26.

Kantharvel , 2018. News 1st We Report You Decide. [Online]
[Accessed 26 April 2022].

Klak, 2021. CONCEPTUAL PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING ORGANIZATION, s.l.: MODERN MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2021.

Senge, 2004. The Fifth Discipline. s.l.:s.n.

Teacher-Student-Parent Safety Committee, 2021. wsws.org. [Online]
[Accessed 26 April 2022].


Comments

  1. Tharindu L Bandara26 April 2022 at 11:02

    Hi, A good topic for recent times. Here you have a good description of how activities in a trade union affect (good and bad) organizations. All the best!

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  2. Kumudu26 April 2022 at 11:11

    You have chosen a very interesting topic. This is a situation that we often talk about and face these days. Although the trade union movement is good, it is my opinion that these are now being implemented to fulfill personal needs rather than employee objectives. Good luck 👍

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  3. Prasad27 April 2022 at 09:15

    Governments servants should give their service to public in a country. Since they erans from mostly public tax. Due to some unions action make hassle to peoples of the country. Your topic is sutable to SL situation .

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  4. Lakshitha MBA 2022 FEB2 May 2022 at 09:00

    You've selected a fascinating subject. This is a topic that we frequently discuss and deal with these days. Although I believe that the trade union movement is beneficial, I believe that it is presently being used to meet personal interests rather than employee goals. Best wishes

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