Title
Globalization and Industrial Relations of China, India, and South Korea: An Argument for Divergence
Document Type
Seminar Paper
Date of Original Version
2005
Abstract
Driven by technological advances, improved communications, economic liberalization, and increased international competition, globalization has brought in an era of economic, institutional and cultural integration. Under globalization the workplace practices are under a constant state of flux. Academics are not only analyzing the benefits and the deleterious effects of this phenomenon on the employment relations of developed and under-developed nations. They have also stirred up the old controversy regarding the longer-run trajectory of employment relations systems under the pressures of globalization. The debate is on the question that whether the industrial relations systems of countries are converging or diverging. This paper analysis employment relation systems of three Asian countries - China, India, and Korea - and makes a case for diversion in employment relation systems.