Industrial Conflict in the Gig Economy

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Industrial conflict is no longer a key issue in employment relations as can be seen in new
forms of work, such as the Gig Economy.
The Industrial conflicts are known to occur when the employees are expressing their
dissatisfaction with the management over the current state in which they are working in. the
employees might be dissatisfied with the management employee relationships. The main cause
of these types of dissatisfactions are typically those matters which are related with the regular
payment with the wage, salary increment or the remunerations which are paid by the company.
the employees can freely express their dissatisfaction in the informal and both formal ways. the
formals methods mainly includes the actions and methods of organized procedures in advance.
The gig economy is known as a part of shifting the cultural and business environment
which includes the sharing economy, the gift economy and the barter economy. Sharing
economy is also known as the collaborative consumption or the sharing which is based from a
single peer to anther peer. It is a concept in the gig economy which is known to highlight the
ability to rent7 or borrow a good from another employee rather than buying it own. The gift
economy according to the author Kemerink et al (2015)is far better than the sharing economy as
because they rely on the intangible rewards like the sense of proper contribution, community
prestige or honor. The barter economy is a cashless economic system in which the goods and
services are traded at negotiable rates. According to the author Eisold (2017) the barter based
economic system is something which is one of the earliest predating system in the organization.
Also in the gig economy the organizations will be able to save the resources in terms of
benefit which might include the office space and the training centers. They will also save the
employee engagement, time and salary of the employee. They will also save money just by

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contracting a staff who is a freelancer rather than keeping a staffs present in the office. Therefore
ideally the gig economy model is empowered by the independent workers who are rather
selecting the jobs which interest them rather than the one in which they are forced to in the
economy. The organization is obviously benefitted if there are no comfits in the place. The
disadvantages of the conflicts if prevailing in the organization will include stress or getting
distracted in the work of the employees from carrying out their role in the organization. The most
important disadvantage of the conflicts is that the employees might not be able to focus in their
work in the organization,. the conflict are very time consuming when it is coming to resolve any
conflict in the organization. According to the Bryson (2018) in most of the cases the managers
and the leaders of the top management of the organization is known to spend a lot of time in
resolving the conflict in the organization. Also it has been reported by usiness Performance
Improvement Resource that the conflicts contribute to the resignation of half the employees
working in the organization. the turnovers which are resulted by the conflicts are very costly as
the company will have to hire a new member in the place of the resigned employee. Also only
hiring the new employee will not be the end the employee has to go through various types of
training and development procedures which the company have to bear the cost (Gurău 2017).
Few of the factors which might explain why the conflict has occurred in the firm are
misunderstandings, poor or lack of communication among the workers who are working in the
organization. Lack of planning the tasks and poor staff selections will lead to conflicts in the
organization. the employees which are working in the organization might have to face
frustrations, stress and burnout while working. Few of the theories which are used to find out the
factors of the conflicts are: