Multinational Companies and Global Human Resource Strategies

Table of contents

• Multinational Companies and Global Human Resource Strategies i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Tables ix
• Figures and Exhibit xi
• Acknowledgments and Tribute xiii
• 1 - Global Human Resource Strategies: a Framework and Overview 1
• Part I - Foreign Direct Investment Strategies and Industrial Relations Systems 19
• 2 - Foreign Direct Investment and Its Employment Opportunities in Perspective: Meeting the Great Expectations of Developing Countries? 21
• 3 - Mncs and Global Commodity Chains: Implications for Labor Strategies 43
• 4 - The Influence of Industrial Relations System Factors on Foreign Direct Investment 65
• 5 - The Effect of Different Industrial Relations Systems in the United States and the European Union on Foreign Direct Investment Flows 87
• Part II - Multinational Company Human Resource Management and Labor Relations Strategies 99
• 6 - A Process Model of Strategic Hrm/Lr Change in Mncs: the Case of At&T and NCR in the United Kingdom 101
• 7 - Transferring the Learning Factory to America? the Japanese Television Assembly Transplants 123
• 8 - Convergence or Divergence of Contingent Employment Practices? Evidence of the Role of Mncs in Europe 143
• 9 - Mncs as Diffusers of Best Practices in Hrm/Lr in Developing Countries 167
• Part III - Transnational Union Strategies 195
• 10 - Dual Sourcing at Ford in the United States and Mexico: Implications for Labor Relations and Union Strategies 197
• 11 - Local Union Responses to Continental Standardization of Production and Work in Gm's North American Truck Assembly Plants 223
• 12 - Out of the Ashes: the Steelworkers' Global Campaign at Bridgestone/Firestone 249
• 13 - Strategic International Laborism: Mncs and Labor in the Graphical Sector 269
• Part IV - Transnational Workplace Regulation 291
• 14 - Sailing beyond the Reach of Workplace Regulations: Worker Exploitation by Mncs on the High Seas 293
• 15 - Carrot or Stick? How Mncs Have Reacted to the European Works Council Directive 305
• 16 - Early Days: Belgian and U.K. Experiences of European Works Councils 329
• 17 - Regulating Employee Interest Representation: the Case of Mcdonald's in the European Union 347
• 18 - Nafta's Labor Side Agreement: Withering as An Effective Labor Law Enforcement and Mnc Compliance Strategy? 369
• Part V - Summary and Conclusion 401
• 19 - The Role of Power and Implications for Transnational Workplace Outcomes 403
• Index 423
• About the Editor and Contributors 429

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