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- Reading for next class – Multi-national Corporations
- Essay reminder - Monday
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- Models – Frameworks of Comparison
- Canada
- Britain
- Sweden
- France
- Italy
- Germany
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- Donn and Karper – Changing Product Markets and the New Industrial
Relations
- Sources of post-war US economic dominance
- Growing Economic Interdependence
- Impact on US mass-production industries
- Spread to service industries
- Implications for the US and other economically developed nations
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- Technological advantage
- More capital per worker
- Unique product market
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- Why are these all disappearing?
- Technological advantage
- More capital per worker
- Unique product market
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- Evidence
- How does the US compare to other economically developed nations?
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- Pressure on costs
- Pressure on industrial-relations institutions
- Internationalization of HR institutions
- Inability to remain competitive despite cost cutting
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- Examples of other industries
- Effect on previously unthreatened US workers
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- Implications for companies?
- Implications for workers?
- Implications for unions?
- Implications for governments and government policies
- Implications for standards of living?
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- IRHRM in multi-national companies
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