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Globalisation, Work and Employment: Impact on Employment Relations in Different Countries

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This essay evaluates the impact of globalisation on employment relations in two countries belonging to different varieties of capitalism. It also includes an assessment of the claim that national labour market institutions are no longer important. The essay plan will include an introduction and analysis of the relevant evidence and arguments, along with a theoretical framework. The essay will also compare and contrast different aspects of employment relations between the two countries, and explain the differences and similarities observed.

Globalisation, Work and Employment: Impact on Employment Relations in Different Countries

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Globalisation, work and employmentMajor essay:This essay builds on the conceptual work undertaken in the first essay and applies it to a particular problem.Students will write an answer to ONE of these four questions:1.Evaluate the impact of globalisation on employment relations in any two countries usually defined as belonging to a different ‘variety of capitalism’.2.Assess the claim that 'national labour market institutions are no longer very important'.3.Assess the claim that 'employment relations across the globe are becoming more Americanised'.4.Choose any aspect of employment relations and compare it between two 'varieties of capitalism'. How well does the 'varieties' framework explain the differences and/or similarities you observe?Assessment CriteriaThe essay deals with all the ULOs and PLOs for this unit as it draws together the learning thus far. Theassessment criteria are that the essay:1.Shows that you have read and researched widely.2.Shows that you have properly summarised the relevant evidence and arguments.3.Demonstrates the capacity to analyse the material which the essay describes; that is to say, the essay is theoretically-informed.4.References sources properly, according to the essay guide.5.Clearly answers the set question.6.Synthesises all these requirements into a logical and coherent essay.Feedback –The marker will provide written feedback in terms of the assessment criteria above. The unit coordinator will provide general feedback to the class so that each student can contextualise her/his own performance. He will also speak to students about individual performance. As this is the final essay, the focus of the feedback will be on content knowledge as students begin to prepare for the examination.Remarks:I prefer to choose between the first question and the second question.For the first question, it is important to define what is globalization. Lecturer mentioned that globalisation is really about those connections which could be defined in one or more ways: the movement of firms, money, labour, goods (ie trade) between countries.For the second question, make sure you define how things are changing: that is, what is happening over time to make national institutions more or less important than they wereAnd make sure you say what you mean by national institutions. Which ones do you want to talk about - governments, unions, local companies? You can do this however you like but make sure you tell us in the essay what you want to do. You could do more than one institution. The
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