Dunlop Model Lecture-1
Dunlop Model Lecture-1
Dunlopian Model
Introduction
• The systems approach has been a combination of
traditions, customs and a web of action, reaction and
interaction between parties. The systems approach is
given by Prof. John T. Dunlop of the Harvard University
(1958) and is also referred as Dunlop’s Approach.
Dunlop analyses industrial relations system as a
subsystem of the society.
• He suggested that industrial relations system could be
divided into four interrelated elements comprising
certain actors, certain contexts, an ideology binding the
industrial relations system together and a body of rules
created to govern the actors at the workplace.
A simplified version of Dunlop’s
Approach to Industrial Relation
Output
Environmental Forces