Globalization & Changing Industrial Relations in Taiwan?s Banking Industry
Published: 2010
Author(s) Name: Joseph S. Lee
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Abstract
As workers move away from manufacturing
jobs to white collar and
service jobs, the pattern of industrial
relations also changes. High
performance HRM practices have
become more and more popular in
Taiwan while trade unions are fast
fading away. Collective bargaining
is rapidly becoming a thing of the
past in Taiwan because white collar
and knowledge workers do not
like to join unions since their employment,
level of pay and benefits
are determined based on their individual
performance and innovative
and creative abilities and not
by collectivism. This article investigates
the reasons for the rapid
rise in union membership in the
banking industry as well as the role
played by trade unions when technologies
and the work environment
have been drastically changing in
recent years.
Keywords :HRM practice in Taiwan, Banking industry, Rise in union membership
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