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Assignment - Comparative Research Project
Imagine you are consultant employed by a Jetstar Group to assess employment relations policies and practices in two different subsidiaries. You will be comparing different locations, social contexts, and political-economic systems. From your research, you will select relevant policies and practices to develop your client's employment relations.
Questions to guide your essay -
For your allocated country company and one other country company, compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the ER systems and processes. Therefore, look at the social environment, laws and policies that influence each country.
1. What are the main elements (parties, laws, processes) of the employment relations systems of these two countries?
2. Arising from the Coronavirus outbreak, what challenges exist for the Jetstar Group cooperates in seeking to have a standard approach to HRM adopted internationally?
You will need to incorporate the following elements from your studies:
Review relevant theories/ ER Models or Approach of each country
Identify the influence of the local country culture on ER policy and practices in each country
Some questions for you to address are:
Why is a company practicing differently in other countries?
Which stakeholders influence these practices?
What challenges has each country's company faced in the internationalisation process during this pandemic?
Structure of your report -
1. Introduction
Topic of your report and your key research questions
Rationale of doing it
In general, why is an understanding of this comparative topic important in international ER studies? How does this issue challenge for current ER system?
In particular, for low-lost airline industry, What have Jetstar's challenges in ER/HRM policy and practices? How does important for us to understand these challenges?
Structure of your body: What key issues will you review or analysis in this report (your sub-issues)
2. Body
2.1 Literature review: Key theories that you are going to use to debate/ analysis the topic (e.g. globalisation, standardisation ><localisation, divergence>< convergent theories, VoC theory, Best practices>< Best fit...)
2.2 Sub-heading 1 (countries comparative: responses to question 1).
In this section you should have three main themes:
- Describe a current contextual factors of ER: cultural, political, economic factors that impact on ER system of each country ? what VoC model they belong to Describe parties, laws, processes of ER systems of those two countries
- What were similarities/ or differences between these companies HRM systems and practices ? Why?
2.3 Sub-heading 2 (Jetstar companies comparative: responses to question 2)
Current Jetstar HRM practices in each country company and how the contextual factors have impacted on their practices - Challenges to Jetstar to apply standardization or localization and why?
You should discuss key themes that were developed from above review:
What were similarities between these companies HRM systems and practices ? Why?
What differences between these companies HRM system and practices? why?
Identify key challenges of Jetstar in each country to apply standardization during the Covid -19 Pandemic
Using the above theories to help you to debate this section (Best Fit model of HRM -Harvard model; Convergent divergent model of HRM; Standardisation vs Localisation).
4. Recommendations
- for international and comparative ER studies and
- for Jetstar to achieve the best outcomes of their HRM practices during this Pandemic.
5. Conclusion
A summary what you have written in the essay
6. References requirement
You are asked to reference a minimum of 10 academic sources for this essay.