Employment relations in the Asian economies / edited by Anil Verma, Thomas A. Kochan, and Russell Lansbury.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Employment relations in an era of global markets: a conceptual framework chapter / Anil Verma, Thomas A. Kochan and Russell D. Lansbury -- 2. Economic development, globalization, and practices in industrial relations and human resource management in Korea / Young-bum Park and Michael Byungnam Lee -- 3. The development of industrial relations strategy in Singapore / Chew Soon Beng and Rosalind Chew -- 4. Economic development and the evolution of industrial relations in Taiwan, 1950-1993 / Joseph S. Lee -- 5. From an industrial to a post-industrial economy: challenges for human resource management in Hong Kong / David A. Levin and Ng Sek-Hong -- 6. Economic development strategy, government labour policy and firm-level industrial relations practices in Malaysia / Sarosh Kuruvilla and Ponniah Arudsothy -- 7. Philippine industrialization and industrial relations / Rene E. Ofreneo --

8. Economic liberalization and the transformation of industrial relations policies in India / C. S. Venkata Ratnam -- 9. The changing face of human resource management in China: opportunities, problems and strategies / Anil Verma, Yan Zhiming and Chen Zhufeng -- 10. Lessons from the Asian experience: a summary / Anil Verma, Thomas A. Kochan and Russell D. Lansbury.

This book analyses the role of employment relations in the context of economic development in some of the key Asian economies: China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

In recent years, these Asian economies have become increasingly more open and export-driven, and there is strong interest all over the world in the Asian economic 'miracle' among practitioners and scholars alike. Although much has been written on this region, few books have concentrated on the human resource aspects of this growth.

The authors take the basic premise that the success of these countries has lain in low wages and suppression of workers' rights, but recognize that as employment relations evolve, enterprises either pull out due to rising wages, or adapt and remain - cases are provided to illustrate both these features. Cases also test the hypothesis that unless a synergy is created between firm-level and state-level human resource policies, economic growth is unlikely to be sustainable.