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Unit 10: International Industrial Relations
Neha Khosla, Lovely Professional University

Unit 10: International Industrial Relations Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

10.1 Trade Unions and International Industrial Relations
10.1.1 Factors that Influence Industrial Relations
10.1.2 Actors of Industrial Relations

10.1.3 Factors for Differences in Trade Unions Structure
10.2 Key Issues in International Industrial Relations
10.3 Response of Trade Unions to Multinational, Regional Integration
10.3.1 Regional Integration
10.4 Summary

10.5 Keywords
10.6 Review Questions
10.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
 Define factors affecting differences in trade unions structure
 Discuss key issues in International industrial relations
 Describe the responses of trade unions to multinational, regional integration

 Identify EU and NAFTA

Introduction

It is difficult to compare industrial relations systems and behaviour across national boundaries;
a labour relations concept may change considerably when translated from one industrial relations
context to another. The concept of collective bargaining in the United States means negotiations
between a labour union local and management; in Sweden and Germany it refers to negotiations
between an employers’ organisation and a trade union at the industry level. Cross-national
differences also emerge as to the objectives of the collective bargaining process and the
enforceability of collective agreements.
Human resource management practices result in creation of relations among employees,
management and trade unions. Such relations are called industrial relations. Similarly the HRM
policies and practices of international business with regard to different country nationals (PCN,
TCN and HCN) result in relations among management of multinational corporations and other
kind of employees. Such relations are called international industrial relations. These relations
play a crucial role in strategy formulation and implementation in international business either
by enabling or disabling MNCs in the process of doing business in various countries.

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