Flower power in industrial relations

Recently a large food manufacturing company approached the Food Drink and Tobacco Industry Training Board's advisers who specialise in industrial relations training for assistance in setting up a training programme for their junior management. Its purpose was to help them influence more effectively the industrial relations situations with which they were faced. Like many other organisations this company was meeting more pressures from the shop floor, union initiatives and ever increasing uncertainty and doubts on the part of junior management, who were responsible for playing a positive and constructive role within a changing industrial relations environment.