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    Managing Employment Relations in a Global

    Context 2021-22

    Managing employment relations for


    high performance in global
    perspective

    Tutor input #4
    Divergence and the management of employment relations

    • Cooke (2004) study of a toy factory in


    China marked by control and compliance
    approach; unrealistic to expect
    convergence towards the high-
    commitment model of HRM (Cooke
    2005)
    • Foxconn in China: a ‘high pressure
    production regime’ (Chan et al 2013)
    • McKay (2006) study of the Philippines:
    critique of HPWS concept; study of
    electronics factories showed varied
    management approaches, but no real
    worker empowerment; notion of
    Divergence and the management of
    employment relations
    • What about the influence of national institutional and
    cultural contexts on the adoption and development
    of sophisticated HRM (see Farnham 2015)? The
    importance of contextualisation (Kaufman 2020)
    - Western Europe: the relatively gradual and
    constrained pace of change (e.g. greater trade union
    involvement, higher levels of employee protection)
    - Turkey: human resource management from above
    (Nichols and Sugur 2004)
    - Japan: the evolution of HRM in a context of strong,
    organisationally-based employment systems; the
    gradual shift from seniority etc to performance (see
    Salmon 2004; Wood 2013: 100)
    Divergence and the management of employment relations

    • Management as an ‘agent of capital’:


    - ‘institutions matter’: the comparative
    institutionalist approach (Klerck 2014) - e.g.
    are there different ‘varieties’ of capitalism (e.g.
    Hall and Soskice 2001)?
    - compare and contrast the short-termist
    financial pressures in the US and UK with the
    organisation of capitalism in countries like Japan
    and Germany
    - shareholder dominance and the rise of
    ‘disconnected capitalism’(Thompson 2011; 2013;
    Dundon & Rafferty 2018)
    Conclusions
    • Convergence or divergence? Managing employment
    relations in comparative perspective
    - global competitive pressures and the diffusion of
    best practice managerial techniques indicate
    convergence
    - but how far has the HPWS model influenced
    the management of employment relations?
    - importance of contextualisation (Kaufman 2020)
    - evidence of convergence AND ongoing
    diversity: is it a case of ‘converging divergences’
    (Katz and Darbishire 2000)?

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