Collective bargaining in Jammu and Kashmir Bank

The paper analyzes the importance of Collective Bargaining in J&K bank Ltd, a private sector bank of Jammu and Kashmir. It also analyzes the role and scope of Collective Bargaining in the bank and determines the issues of disagreement in the bank. It also tries to see whether the Unionism is strong in the Bank. The study is related with trade union and management, so, we selected the sample from them mainly; however other employees who had been part of the union were also chosen in order to make the sample healthy. Two Research Instruments were used viz personal interviewing and Closed ended questionnaire. The instruments measured employees’ knowledge about Collective Bargaining, importance of collective bargaining in the Bank, strength of unionism in the bank, issues of collective bargaining in the bank, relationship between management and staff in the bank and conflict resolution in the bank. The findings reveal that all the employees are aware about the term collective bargaining, collective bargaining is important in every organization and the J&K Bank uses Collective Bargaining to achieve a mutually agreeable condition of employment. Further the Unionism is strong in the bank and Promotions, transfers and incentives form the basis of collective bargaining mostly in J&K Bank. Moreover, the Conflict/Disagreement arise between management and staff rarely and the bank uses win-win approach to resolve the conflict.