Reference no: EM133097149

CASE STUDY

Reference:

https://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/2441_LATORNELL_JAMIE_HRM-23.PDF

Read the case study titled "Increasing Individualism in the Employment Relationship? Theories and Models Meet Employment Relations Realities" and answer all the questions that follow. Cite all sources of information and produce a bibliography after each question. 

1. The case study suggests that one of the aspects of profound changes in employment relationships in New Zealand and other countries has been the shift from collectivism to individualism. Based on the case study and other literature, examine the nature of the shift from collectivism to individualism in general.
2. Based on the case study and other literature, evaluate the shift from "class-conscious collectivism... to self-interested individualism" from employment relations theoretical perspectives mentioned in the case study.
3. Based on the case study, the employment relations perspective of individualism and collectivism have links to the unitarist and pluralist 'frames of reference'. In your own words, discuss the link of the employment relations perspective of individualism and collectivism to the unitarist and pluralist 'frames of reference'.
4. Examine all employment relation theories that you have come across in this case study with case study examples.
5. Has the shift from collectivism to the individualism of employment relations also been experienced in-country Fiji? Why?