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| Author: | Smith, C. (et al.) |
| Title: | Labour turnover and management retention strategies in new manufacturing plants |
| Journal: | International journal of human resource management
2004 : MAR, VOL. 15:2, p. 371-396 |
| Index terms: | Labour turnover Multinational companies Manufacturing Japan United Kingdom |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper draws from on-going research on labour-management relations in transnational companies within a new town in the English Midlands. The paper examines the issue of labour turnover and the management of labour retention using two contrasting case examples from Japanese TNCs. The apper seeks to contextualize management decision-making with regard to labour turnover through a political economy and firm-level analysis. At the macro-level the authors highlight a shift from using wages and strong internal labour markets as labour retention mechanisms, towards an inter-firm collusion on wages, non-poaching and union-avoidance. At the micro-level these strategies are matched with firm-level HRM policies of careful labour selection, company paternalism, segmentation of the labour force into temporary and permanent group and accommodation to higher levels of labour turnover to balance product demand and labour supply. |
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