Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Trade Unions and Industrial Relations Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This is the TY BCOM syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. The University still sets the earlier Choice Based syllabus below alongside it for ATKT candidates, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Trade Unions and Industrial Relations
Module I: Trade Union & Registration
- Unit I: Trade Union
- Meaning, Objective, role and functions of the Trade Unions in Modern Industrial Society of India, Trade Unionism in India
- Grievance - Meaning and forms, sources of grievance, Grievance procedures, model grievance procedure. Disciplinary procedure
- Unit II: Registration
- Registration of Trade union, Immunities of Registered trade unions, Standing orders, Arbitration & Adjudication.
- Trade Dispute, Rights to strike and New Role of Trade Unions -In the context of globalization, IT, trade and productivity.
Module II: Industrial Relations & Collective Bargaining
- Unit I: Industrial Relations
- Industrial Relations: Scope and Significance, Causes and Consequences of Industrial Disputes, Recent Trends in Industrial Relations.
- Promotion of Harmonious Relations, Machinery for Prevention and Settlement of Industrial Disputes, Conciliation, Arbitration and Adjudication, Code of Discipline.
- Unit II: Collective Bargaining
- Collective Bargaining, CB Practices in India, Participative Management Forms and Levels, Schemes of Workers’ Participation in Management in India.
- Labour codes – The Industrial Relation Code 2020,India and International Labour Standards
Reference Books
- Mamoria C.B. and Mamoria. Satish ‘Dynamics of Industrial Relations’, Himalaya Publishing House, New Delhi, 1998.
- VenkatRatnam, C.S. – Industrial Relations, Oxford University Press
- SC Srivathava, Industrial Relations and Labour Laws, Vikas, ND.
- M.Arora: Industrial Relations, Excel Publications.
- P.R.N.Sinha, InduBala Sinha and Seema Priyadarshini Shekar, “Industrial Relations, Trade Unions and Labour Legislation”, Pearson Education, New Delhi.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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