Resolving Conflict Analysis 2022

Running head: RESOLVING CONFLICT
Resolving Conflict
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Introduction:
The industrial disputes in Australia are mostly prevalent in the manufacturing
and the construction industries. These disputes and conflicts among the employers of the
organisation and the employees result in the loss of the working days to the disputation, since
the conflicts give rise to the industrial strikes and the protest son behalf of the labour force.
According to the Fair Work act (2009), there has been a regulation of the industrial actions
and the employees and the employers are in constant regulation, so that they cannot respond
to the industrial conflicts (Van Gramberg, et.al., 2014). Employees are able to take secured
industrial action to support or advance claims for a new enterprise agreement. This could
only happen if the action is authorised by a protected action ballot order made by the Fair
Work Commission. The following analysis of the discussion aims to answer the questions
that has been posed by the case study discussions. Whether the unfair dismissal claims are
effective and to what extent, and whether the effective ending of the formal industrial actions
in Australia can be explained by management, has been analysed in the following paper.
Discussion analysis:
It can be argued that the relative frequency of the industrial action and the amount of
industrial conflicts have declined to a great extent, almost 97 percent from 1917 to the present
date. These conflicts and the stoppages of labour force had been very common throughout the
post-war expansion. These accounted to an average of 1700 work stoppages per year. This
had reached its peak in the year 1970 (McCrystal , 2014). However with the development of
the new bargaining system in the year 1993, the number of industrial conflicts declined to a
great extent. There had been the introduction of the new concept which was aimed to protect
the industrial actions. The number of the work force disputes thus had reduced to a great

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extent. Looking at the statistics, we can find that there were about 700 disputes per year
which had occurred from 1990 through the mid2000s (Bray & Stewart, 2013).
Analysing the reason behind the industrial disputes, it can be found that there was a
clear relationship between the pace of the wage growth of the employees in Australia and the
frequency of nation’s industrial disputes. According to Peetz (2016), taking accounts of the
history of the post war economic status of Australia, it can be analysed that there was a
consistent threat of the work stoppage due to the bargaining power of the employees and the
workers. The initial years of the post war crisis had noticed a sharp increase in the industrial
dispute and the activities of strike along with the rapid increase of the annual wage of the
workers. There was a decline in the frequency of strikes with the beginning of enterprise
negotiating and other market-oriented reforms in industrial relations. This had resulted in the
increase of the pace of wage.
Thus from the discussion, a conclusion can be drawn that the cumulative decisions in
order to prohibit the industrial actions and disputes have contributed to a great extent to the
erosion and in diminishing the organised industrial disputes and strikes in the Australian
economy. The rate of the strikes and the disputes have declined and reduced.
It can also be said that the effective reduction of formal industrial action in Australia
can surely be explained by management and opposition of the employer. Considering the past
history, the management of the industries in Australia have effectively worked for the
reduction of the industrial conflicts. The management meeting the demand of the employees
and effective opposition on behalf of the labour force Commission did help in the effective
ending of the former industrial action in Australia. According to Nicholson, Pekarek &
Gahan (2017), formal arrangements for resolving industrial disputes did involve the union,