Preface acknowledgements. Part a: industrial Relations. 1. Industrial Relations—Main conceptual and historical overview 2. Industrial disputes 3. Collective bargaining 4. Trade unions 5. Workers’ participation in management 6. Discipline and disciplinary action 7. Grievance handling procedure 8. Employee Compensation: wages, incentives and Supplementary Compensation 9. Institutional framework/systems for wage fixation 10. Fringe benefits and industrial Relations 11. Technological changes, industrial accidents and safety, industrial health and Hygiene and industrial Relations 12. Motivating and adding value to the workers 13. Labour policy and five-year plans 14. India and the international labour organisation (ilo) 15. Labour administration and consultative machinery part B: labour legislation 16. Labour legislation and labour reforms 17. Protective and employment legislation and industrial Relations (I) 18. Protective and employment legislation and industrial Relations (II) 19. Regulatory legislation 20. Social security legislation, author index subject index