A Study on Labour Management Relationship in Selected Industries of Kachchh District of Gujarat: A Pilot Study

Dr. Surbhi D Ahir
Principal, SRK Institute of Social Sciences, Sapeda, Kachchh, India
DOI – http://doi.org/10.37502/IJSMR.2025.81109

Abstract

Industrial relations as a concept, emerged in the eighteenth century explains the relationship between employees and management, particularly a group of employees and management within the organizational setup. The quality of relationship between management and workforce plays a pivotal role in augmenting and enhancing workers’ motivation level, their level of commitment towards work, their loyalty towards the organization and their inclination to pursue organization citizenship behaviour. This paper reports the results of the pilot study conducted to examine the quality of labour management relationship on the dimensions of empathy, bonding, trust, care, support, communication, work environment and transparency. The study is mainly aimed at evaluating the reliability and validity of the various constructs of a survey questionnaire to be used for an exhaustive study. The study is conducted for a sample of 100 respondents selected by non-random convenient sampling method. Analysis of pilot data followed two approaches; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The CFA was performed simultaneously while examining the convergent and discriminant validity using SPSS AMOS. This study proposes a model that can evaluate the quality of labour management relationship on various dimensions. The outcomes of the study makes noteworthy contribution in assessing the viability of the model to be used for measuring the quality of labour management relationship.

Keywords: Labour Management relationship, empathy, trust, Industrial relations, reliability, validity.

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