International Employment Relations
Due to the influence of globalization, no country in the world can lead totally independent politics, which also concerns the labor relationships. Foreign-funded organizations have brought the international rules and system of management of the organization, including the approach to the rights and duties of the average worker. Nguyen (2014) outlines that the labor relationships in Vietnam have recently undergone a positive change, which is seen in the increase of the legal mitigation of the conflicts with the workers, fostering of legislative compliance and the awareness the employees have of their rights and duties. It should also be noted that Vietnamese workers appear to have more interest in protecting and fighting for their rights, however, the government is currently focused on the development of the working mechanism that would enable fast and effective conflict resolutions. So, the following paper assumes that the labor relations in Vietnam have been affected in a way the workers feel more empowered to fight for the better working conditions and the government strives to provide the workers with legal protection.
The influence of globalization on the international employment relationships
It is impossible to reject the influence of globalization on the international employment relationships. Lansbury, Kitai, and Weiles (2003) outline that there are three main approaches to the definition of it. Firstly, globalization could have caused some kind of convergence between different countries concerning labor relationships. On the other hand, the institutions at the national level might serve as the mediator that helps to mitigate the cross-national differences (Bamber, G. J., Lansbury, R. D., and Wailes, N., 2010). The third approach rejects both the dichotomy and the convergence, claiming that in order to reach positive and effective employment relationships, it is vital that the national and global forces work together.
Sarkar (2015) claims that due to the impact of globalization the multinational companies have to restructure their management so that to increase the competition between the employees and to make sure that employees are committed to the company’s goals. However, successful restructuring of company’s functioning might appear to be a challenging task as it requires from the company’s to transfer their type of labor relationships on the institutionally diverse business systems (Ferner, A. and Quintanilla, J., 2002). It might not always have the entirely positive impact as the transfer of labor relationships can result in the growth of the worker’s uncertainty and the scope of the precarious work (Kalleberg, A., 2009). In this case, the national government would have to enact the legislature, which sets the necessary minimal wage and the requirements to working conditions.
In a case of Vietnam, globalization imposes the two major challenges. First, the national government needs to cooperate with the international businesses so that to make sure employees work in the decent conditions and are properly paid. Also, the national Vietnamese companies have to adjust their employee relationships in order to be competitive with the international companies (Chan, A., 2015). Vietnamese managers have to …
