Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems [Paperback]

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press; 1 edition (Jan 11 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801488117
ISBN-13: 978-0801488115
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 458 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #171,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8 in Books > Professional & Technical > Accounting & Finance > Economics > Unemployment
- #9 in Books > Business & Investing > Economics > Unemployment
- #9 in Books > Nonfiction > Economics > Unemployment

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Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire find that traditional national systems of employment are being challenged by four cross-national patterns. The patterns, which are becoming ever more prevalent, can be categorized as low-wage, human resource management, Japanese-oriented, and joint team-based strategies. The authors go on to show that these changing employment patterns are closely related to the decline of unions and growing income inequality. Drawing upon plant-level evidence on emerging employment practices, they provide a comprehensive analysis of changes in employment systems and labormanagement relations. They conclude that while the variation in employment patterns is increasing within countries, evidence suggests that there is much commonality across countries in the nature of that variation and also similarity in the processes through which variation is appearing. Hence the term "converging divergences." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting read indeed, Mar 28 2000

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This review is from: Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems (Hardcover)

Katz and Darbishire have concocted a classic piece in the ever growing volume of literature on industrial relations. The depth of their research is unprecedented and their sharply analysed conclusions are interesting in the least. Moreover, the book is well written and the line of argumentation is nicely combined with a variety of practical examples, which makes the text compulsively readable overall. Human resource manager, but also general management, from across industries can draw from the various employment patterns and learn tremendously as to how to provide a motivating work environment, a challenge ever more prevalent in these days of hypercompetition for talented people. The book will also give a valuable read to policymakers as well as the interested follower of globalisation's impact on the workplace. After all, the drivers of convergence mainly stem from the growing blur of global fontiers and the desperate struggle of European and Asian countries to keep up with the American economy. This is why trade unionism in Europe, most notably Germany and France, are under an increasing pressure to submerge. It will be interesting to follow how globalisation will be able to flex its muscles and shape national systems in the future. It will also be interesting to see how Japanese-style ideals and team-based strategies will be able to sustain in the face of reappearance of Schumpeterian theories of economic values of entrepreneurship, which largely blossoms in individualist, against-the-rules working principles and creative destruction of poorly performing companies. I hope there will be another book of equivalent depth in a number of years to pick up these impacting developments.

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