Industrial Relations in Inia: A Study of Post Reform Period

Industrial relations is a subject grasping paramount significance both at the national as well as international level. It is one of the oldest and major functions of Human Resource Management and is basically concerned with the relationships between employers and employees at the workplace. The forces of economic reforms have completely altered the industrial relations system in India and in the other nations as well. The relationships between employers and employees are getting complicated day by day. The present paper has been embraced to assess the India's industrial relations scenario in the post reform period on the basis of intensity of industrial disputes, an important parameter to judge soundness of industrial relations and spans over a period of 24 years (1991–2014). The study is purely based on secondary data which is analyzed through paired-sample t test. The results of data analysis reveal that industrial relations are better in the subsequent years of reforms as compared to the initial years.