Introduction/Background The industry sector in Southeast Asia has been in the news elsewhere wherein business economies are experiencing an unstable growth, downturns and issues that relate to countries foreign direct investments or FDI, GDPs, capital markets and certain industry operation (ASEAN Secretariat 2002; Mielnik and Goldemberg 2002). There is a...
With the welfare state, employment protection legislation and more socially aware employers, there is no longer any need for people to join trade unions Globalization often presents radical changes to the local labor market. Some raise the specter of deteriorating terms and conditions for labor and the weakened role of...
Total Productive Maintenance Introduction In the scenario and situations of the industrial business today, huge losses/wastage happens in the plantation or manufacturing plants. Such waste is because of the maintenance personnel, operators, process, tooling malfunctions and non-availability of he components in specific time and others factors (Kilpatrick, 2003). Other types...
Introduction Researchers looking at employment practices have utilized various typologies of styles of employee relations to recognize the extent to which there are managerial alternatives when it comes to how manager-worker relationships are to be shaped. The management styles of employee relations vary in the extent to which they emphasize...