Indira Management Review

B. D. Pande ¹

Affiliations
1 Tata Steel, IN

Abstract

Workers' participation in management which has not been adopted successfully in many industrial units is quite a relevant topic even in the present context. The country has not reached a level of development where a transition can be effectively made from the authoritarian style of management to a highly democratic style of management. However, the desired objective is to democratize the organizational structure and to have a larger measure of participation and democracy in industrial organizations. There are certain organizations where better results have been achieved, because of management's conviction in the democratic system and a strong will to implement it in the organization.

Organizations like Tata Steel have implemented it very successfully and have reaped the desired result. Effective participation is a continuing process of education for the entire workforce of an organization. By virtue of overviewing the joint consultations department of Tata Steel for years together, the author has experienced the system in Tata Steel very closely. The article covers experiment of Tata Steel elaborately in addition to the scenario in India, and ILO on participative management culture. He has suggested quite elaborately steps to make the scheme a success. The paper has presented an overall view on workers' participation in management.

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B. D. Pande ¹

Affiliations
1 B K Birla Group Company under Century Textiles & Industries Ltd., IN

Abstract

The corporate philosophy governing labour relations in Tata Steel flows out of the ideals of the Founoer, Jamsetji Tata, who, as a one-man Planning Commission (to quote Jawaharlal Nehru), started his pioneering experiments in labour welfare more than 100 years ago in his first large scale industrial venture - the textile mills at Nagpur. Tata Steel, which was conceived by the Founder as an essential ingredient of India's economic emancipation, the two others being Electric Power and Scientific Education, was bom three years after his death.

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B. D. Pande ¹

Affiliations
1 P.O. Baikunth, -493 116, Dist: Raipur, Chhattisgarh, IN

Abstract

The wave of the development and dissemination of technology has brought a range of goods and services to the consumer in a manner and price that is affordable with accessibility. However, this trend has also resulted in major externalities being imposed on society often in remote corners of the globe. An important example of this reality is the problem of climate change, which has resulted from a growth in the concentration of greenhouse gases as an outcome of industrialization and greater production and consumption of goods and services. Even though scientists well over hundred years ago highlighted the danger of greater consumption of fossil fuels leading to warming of the earth, these voices were not heeded till recently. The intergovernmental panel of Climate Change (IPCC) through a series of reports have highlighted the strong evidence showing human influence on the Earth's climate, and serious impacts that are being caused across the globe. Report of the IPCC elaborates on several technological solutions than can help to stabilize the Earth's atmosphere, and consequently the climate, within a reasonable period of time. Effective mitigation measures can be undertaken by adopting technologies that exist already. However, such action would be possible and effective only if a policy framework is created to facilitate technology development and dissemination. The most important part of such a policy would be to place a price on carbon that would ensure movement towards a low carbon economy across the world. If appropriate incentives and disincentives are used by governments, several low carbon technologies could come into existence. This paper highlights Environment IVIanagement System, the existing environment scenario and steps to tackle environment problem.

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