Employment Relation Models
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摘要:Transforming economies models are so various that the justification of them will be too huge to cover in this essay. But still there are lessons to learn from all of them. In short, there is no best employment relation model. Every one has its advantages and disadvantages.
Introduction
Employment relations is a topic more than human resource management (Simon 1951: p. 295). It is so complicated that market, state, company, society and so on can all be included in its contents. Theorists and practitioners are always trying to figure out an most effective model for certain economy. Some European countries choose European Social Model which takes care of the unemployed and the disadvantage. Western countries such as the Australia, New Zealand and the United States tend to favours Anglo-Saxon Model which is characterised by hands-off survival-off-the-fittest. Japan was once famous for its Japanese model which offer lifetime employment contract and runs by seniority-based system. Communist Model was unsuccessfully applied in the Soviet Union but some countries have improved it in a successful way. And last but least countries with transforming economies change model all the time and the scope of them are too large to cover. Which model is the best? There are always new models hailing now and then from the theorists. Is there really a best one above all? This
essay will try to answer this question by separately looking into these models and discuss their effect.
European Social Model
The European Social Model refers to a popular model in European Union, similar with US-Style free-market capitalism or rather, as an alternative to it. The model is often applied by the left forces of European Union as a positive formulation for their perspective of a different Europe. However, at its very beginning, it was used as an symbol and picture Delor's social-democratic Europe (Leibried, Pierson 1995). But these years have witnessed a shift of meaning and application of this term in the context of European employment relations. After being an interpretation of Delor's social-democratic Europe, it then turned to legitimising a dominating "neoliberal integration process" (Hermann, Hofbauer 2007: p. 24) and at last worked on justifying the cut-back of current welfare systems. However, led by this model, European employment relations did not seem to shift from negativity to positivity. For instance, there are still 20 million workers unemployed in Europe (Hermann, Hofbauer 2007: p. 25). This model is supposed to enhance European employees competitive advantages in global market, catching the opportunities and avoiding the risks. No doubt that a social Europe is needed, but the social Europe should work in the interests of its European employees (Blair 2005: p. 2). Tony Blair (2005: p. 3) also emphasised the shift of purpose of European Social Model, namely, from distinguishing Europe from USA in terms of social characteristics in the process of integrating economies to enhancing the competitive advantage of labour force in Europe. As a result, now this term has become arguable. Political struggle is seen amongst the arguments (Sisson 1999). Only when the model can serve for the real benefit of the European workers can it be as effective as its initial purpose. Anyone who depends on such an ambiguous term should work carefully otherwise they will be the vulnerable victims of such a model.
Anglo-Saxon Model
The Anglo-Saxon Model is popular amongst t
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