... This paper goes some way towards filling the gap in our understanding of the roles played by HR managers in garment factories in the Global South, raising theoretical debates regarding the potential for HR managers in developing countries to distance themselves from the negative consequences of HR practices...

... Collective bargaining Globalization Austerity As is clear from the other contributions to this special issue, the systems of industrial relations consolidated in most of Western Europe after 1945 and constructed in the ex-dictatorships of southern Europe in the 1970s are under attack on many fronts...

... practices. While this holds for discretion, it does not for skill enhancement. Originality/value – While economic globalization is often mentioned as an important factor in understanding organizational relations, there have only been few international comparative studies explicitly linking measures...

... in the global labour market. Globalisation has a pervasive impact in articulating and perpetuating systemic processes of closure, entrapment and containment, which are triggered by migration and legitimised by dynamics of employment relations. Originality/value The paper contributes to current discussions...

... employment relations, migration and geographical mobility within/from Latin America. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Bolivia Brazil United Kingdom Latin America Migrant workers Labour mobility Globalization Productive restructuring Informality Social networks Ethnic economy...

... in teamwork. Teamwork Service sector Team dimensions model Globalization Team working Service industries Groups and teams have traditionally been a major focal point of psychological and sociological theory and research. An understanding of groups is necessary for almost every analysis...

... supported by insights gained from a variety of research initiatives. Findings As noted by a variety of authors, the reality is that there are assorted types of global and international movements within trade unionism, which are based on four dimensions in terms of specific sectoral, ideological...

... if trade unions are to defend and advance the living standards of their members they cannot confine their activities to their national labour markets. Currently, trade unions attempt to do this via multi‐lateral link ups via Global Trade Union Federations and by developing links with their sister unions...

..., industrial strategies and labour market structures, Namibia's integration into the global economy will most likely involve the increasing dislocation and exclusion of vulnerable and “peripheral” workers from the formal economy. Originality/value The paper highlights the ways in which the transformation...

... of action explained. The paper argues that NAALC is cumbersome and convoluted to operate. Yet it also argues that NAALC holds out interesting lessons for other regional trading blocs and other global experiments in labour market standard setting as its decentralised and “horizontal” character is more...

..., knowledge transfer and culture in MNEs. The results confirm that there is a widespread move towards global integration, and that this is accompanied by changes in the relationships between managers from corporate and country units, and a tendency to encourage the development of best management practices...

... or legal position of the Dutch system of employee representation, especially with respect to MNEs. This is followed by a description of the formal position of the European works council (EWC). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Employee participation Works councils Globalization Human resource...

...Cliff Lockyer Tony   Royle . Working for McDonald’s in Europe. The Unequal Struggle . London : Routledge   2000 . , ISBN: ISBN 0‐415‐20787‐8   £18.99 (pbk) © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Multinationals Globalization Corporate culture Industrial relations Employee...

... organizations to adapt to global economic challenges, but it has not been easy to balance the needs of employers with those of employees in a country with a history of workers’ rights. (Professor Uco J. Wiersma is a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Building B, Room...

... jaundiced treatment the contradiction in the Japanization paradigm appeared to open further, but again chaos was brought some control through an appeal to pragmatism. This management practice may be overly controlling but there is no alternative. Globalization has become the defining moment in international...

...Seongsu Kim; Dennis R. Briscoe Korean firms are in the process of transforming their human resource management (HRM) systems to compete effectively in the global market. Whereas the traditional HRM system emphasized group harmony and age norms, the “new HR policy” emphasizes a performance‐based...