Employee Relations in Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries: German Multinational Companies in the UK

by Paul F Secord, F. McDonald, Wolf R Bohnisch, M. Allen, Ramakrishnan Alagan

Overview

This book is based on a research project, funded by the Hans Bockler Stiftung, on different employee relations systems in German owned subsidiaries in the UK. The study investigated whether German firms used the liberal institutional system for employee relations in the UK as a means to escape from the heavily regulated system in German firms. The main thrust of the study was to examine the performance implications of the different types of employee relations used by German owned subsidiaries. This book examines the debate on the links between employee relation systems in multinational corporations and performance as well as the debate on convergence of employee relations systems in multinational corporations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230006966
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/28/2007
Edition description:	2007

About the Author

HEINZ-JOSEF TUSSELMANN is Professor of International Business at Manchester Metropolitan University. FRANK MCDONALD is Professor of International Business at the University of Hull. ARNE HEISE is Professor of Economics and Economic Governance at the University of Hamburg, Germany. MATTHEW ALLEN is Lecturer in International Business at Manchester Business School. SVITLANA VORONKOVA is Lecturer in Business Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• Employee Relations systems in the UK and Germany
• Employee Relations Systems in Multinational Corporations
• Firm Performance and Employee Relations
• Conceptual Framework: Postulated Relationships
• The Study
• Employee Relationship Systems in German Subsidaries
• Employee Relationship Systems in German Subsidaries and Performance
• Managerial and Policy Implications
• Implications for Future Research
• Conclusion