MARIKANA IS OUR MIRROR Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity W Yeats 1919

Industrial and employee relations re-alignment Social and economic inequality drove Marikana and 2012/4 strike wave – Migrant labour leads change from below – Implats trigger and causes of collapse of union – HOA and LOA and dinyatsi dependency – Debt and mashonisa Labour Market Institutional fragility exposed – Collective bargaining institutions and collective processes favour majoritarianism created illusionary comforts – Company – collapse of front line supervision in people problem resolution – Union – collapse of democracy and accountability to members Alienation of employees from company and union – Declining union democracy and inter union rivalry breeds intimidation and violence – Employees alienated from company and union and form independent structures – Political alienation from their historical home and search for political alternatives Labour re-alignment post Marikana and the 2014 mine strikes – Multiple unions – Labour market volatility and mew militancy – New political alignments from EFF to Socialist fronts

So where to for leaders? How we got here – the unintended consequences – Nedlac Act and LRA – Labour market reform – Relationship of HR to line ER drives IR – 80 percent effort is in ER – Alignment of people to company scorecards – People problem resolution – Sops and visible leadership Social partners shape the law – Relationships are about transparency, honesty, saying no, consistency, integrity – Language and culture and listening and understanding – Leadership is an everyday act Create new value, share value and align interests – Productivity and reward – Remuneration and variable pay aligned to performance – Ownership options and Profit sharing – Shared value creation and distribution for team SA

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