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Using Dunlop’s systems model, this 3 page paper analyses the industrial relations arrangements in Sweden. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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1960s and 1970s, and it reflected the values and the power balances of the time, and also relied in the present of stable and predictable relationships. The model is interesting
and can still be used when considering the way industrial relations are seen within a country. In this paper we will look at how this older model may be used
to examine Sweden a country which has traditionally followed social responsibility principles (Gourevitch, 1984). Dunlop argues that the nature of industrial relations theory is to "explain why particular rules are
established in particular industrial relations systems and how an why they change in responses to changes affecting the system." (Dunlop, 1958; p.ix). In Dunlops model there are three actors; the
management and they way they are organised, the workers and the way in which they are organised formally and informally and the government agencies that have a role in industrial
relations as well as the ore specialised agencies that can be created by any of the actors. These different actors and the organisations are also influenced by the environment within
which they exist, this is considered in terms of three dimensions; technology, product markets and power relationships. It is within this context that the actors will all interact and the
outcome will be agreement, eventually, as well as the output of the companies. In Dunlops model there would usually be some form of stability where there were some shared
ideologues, as there were compatibility of the internal views which in turn made the way the relationship operate predictable. However, there have been ma y changes in the world since
Dunlop developed this model. In Sweden there an environment where there is a different cultures to many other western countries, as one of the Scandinavian countries the view of
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