代写 MGMT5701 Employment Relations assignment

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    MGMT5701 Employment Relations
    Week 6 Workshop: Chinese business in
    Africa
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    Today’s agenda
    n  Student presentation
    n  Reviewing the case
    n  SWOT analysis, brainstorm strategic planning
    n  Update on Chinese businesses in Africa
    n  Coming up: ER comparative analysis
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    Student presentation
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    Chinese investment in Africa: still
    growing
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    How can we assess Chinese
    investment in Africa?
    n  Hilary Clinton, former US secretary of state called
    upon African countries to guard against those that
    “come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders
    and leave.”
    n  Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, retorted
    immediately that “Clinton’s implication that China has
    been extracting Africa’s wealth for itself is utterly
    devoid of the truth.”
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    What factors are driving Chinese
    investment in Africa?
    n  Globalization?
    n  China’s rising economic power?
    n  Attempt to secure national advantage over globally
    scarce natural resources?
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    Reviewing the case
    n  What is the history of trade between China and Africa?
    n  What characteristics does recent Chinese investment in
    Africa exhibit?
    n  What are the major export and import items?
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    Arguments for and against land
    outsourcing
    n  What ethical issues are presented?
    n  What kind of consequences do such practices beget?
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    SWOT analysis for Chinese
    investment in Africa
    n  Strengths
    n  Weaknesses
    n  Opportunities
    n  Threats
    Internal
    External
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    What are implications for ER of
    such investments?
    n  Stipulations of up to 70% of labour done by Chinese
    workers
    n  Why? What are advantages for Chinese firms?
    n  Skills development & employment for local workers
    n  Displacement of local farmers & communities
    n  OSH & accidents
    n  Social tensions
    + Comparison with Western investment
    in Africa: Shell in Nigeria
    1958  Oil found.
    1990  Movement for the survival of the Ogoni People
    (Mosop) created.
    1993  Ogonis protest environmental damage.
    1993  Shell forced to pull out of Ogoniland.
    1994  Military cracks down on protest.
    1995  Mosop leader & others prosecuted
    1996  Relatives take Shell to trial in US for complicity
    in human rights abuses.
    2009  Shell agrees to $15.5M settlement; denies
    wrongdoing, says it is “humanitarian
    settlement”.
    代写 MGMT5701 Employment Relations assignment
    Brainstorm: strategic planning for
    Chinese firms entering Africa
    n  How can you make investment render mutual benefits
    for both parties?
    n  Conditions for initial investment decision?
    n  Strategy regarding dealing with local government
    policy?
    n  Strategy regarding use of local vs Chinese workers?
    Overall ER strategy?
    + Update on Chinese businesses in
    Africa
    n  Investment by private sector is increasing
    n  From 52 à 923 cases between 2005 and 2012 (55% of
    total investment)
    n  This may underestimate true volume
    n  Unlike public sector’s investment, private sector
    investment focused on manufacturing (36%) and
    services (22%)
    n  Compared to investments in construction (35%) and
    resource extraction (25%) by public sector firms
    “Xiaofang Shen, ‘How the private sector is changing Chinese
    investment in Africa,’ Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 93,
    April 15, 2013
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    Update on Chinese businesses in
    Africa
    n  Some concerns voiced by host countries:
    n  Mostly “sunset industries”
    n  Lack of technology transfers
    n  Concerns about labour & environmental standards
    n  But holds promise for industrialization:
    n  Industrialization involves many steps; this is a first.
    n  China’s own process involved FDI from HK, Taiwan &
    Korea
    n  Host governments should promote technology
    transfer & linkages with local firms
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    Video: Madagascar vanilla
    industry
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    Coming up: ER comparative
    analysis
    n  Due 29 April (Week 8), in hard copy and through
    Turnitin in Moodle
    n  1,500 words
    n  4 references (see what qualifies as ‘reference’ in
    outline)
    n  No additional research required beyond course
    readings
    n  25% of grade
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    ER comparative analysis
    n  Students will compare and contrast two country cases, each
    selected from one of the three typologies of ER systems
    covered in this course: liberal market economies (including
    Australia), coordinated market economies, and Asian
    economies. Some guiding questions to structure your
    analysis are:
    n  Compare and contrast the two societies in terms of the
    literature on comparative institutions. Describe the main
    characteristics of ER in each country and compare their roles
    within each society.
    n  What is the role of unions and other structures of workplace
    representation in each country, and how are they different?
    n  How is the ER system in each country changing if at all? What
    are the current challenges?
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    Grading rubric
    Demonstrate
    understanding of different
    employment relations
    systems.
    •  Lists key characteristics of the countries’ ER
    systems
    •  Gives examples
    •  Explains each ER system in relation to the overall
    model of capitalism.
    •  Illustrates how each ER system is changing, if at all.
    /9
    Compare and contrast
    different employment
    relations systems.
    •  Shows insights to how the two countries’ ER
    systems are different and how they may be similar.
    •  Gives examples.
    /7
    Demonstrate
    understanding of the
    implications for workers
    and organisations of
    different structures for
    workplace representation.
    •  Lists key characteristics of workplace
    representation structures in each ER system.
    •  States whether these structures promote voice and
    equity for workers.
    •  Explains why or why not these structures promote
    voice and equity.
    /6
    Demonstrate critical
    thinking, analytical, and
    communications skills.
     /3
    Total  /25
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    Next week
    n  Lecture: Asian economies and their ER
    n  Workshop: Governing Global Value Chains: Rana Plaza
    case
    代写 MGMT5701 Employment Relations assignment