II‑ Contempt for Local Customs and Values
•BASED ON HOME PRACTICES, SOME JAPANESE FIRMS IN BRITAIN HAVE INSISTED ON ONLY ONE UNION IN THE PLANT •MacDonald’s has largely been able to impose its normal mode of operation across the EU despite difference in IRHRM systems and laws •STILL, MANY FOREIGN FIRMS IN BRITAIN HAVE BEEN LEADERS IN INNOVATIVE AND SUCCESSFUL IRHRM PRACTICES
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MacDonald’s has largely been able to impose its normal mode of operation across the EU despite difference in IRHRM systems and laws
Including desire to avoid unions which has been largely successful

STILL, MANY FOREIGN FIRMS IN BRITAIN HAVE BEEN LEADERS IN INNOVATIVE AND SUCCESSFUL IRHRM PRACTICES
SOME, LIKE CATERPILLAR IN SCOTLAND, JOINED EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS BUT PLAYED INNOVATIVE ROLES IN THEM
FOREIGN COMPANIES LED THE REPLACEMENT OF PIECE WORK IN BRITAIN WITH MEASURED DAY WORK
SOME US COMPANIES IN BRITAIN HAD SUCCESS NEGOTIATING FIXED TERM AGREEMENTS WITH NO‑STRIKE COMMITMENTS
OVERALL, FOREIGN OWNED BRITISH COMPANIES SEEM TO HAVE A LOWER STRIKE PROPENSITY THAN DOMESTIC ONES