To merge or not to merge?
Week 2 Hand-in Assignment (HIW) - Mohamed Abdulaziz
In this assignment I will analyze article called;” To merge or not to merge? The impact of
Union merger decisions on workers’ representation in Germany” by Martin Behrens and Andreas Pekarek. This article mainly explaining trade unions mergers’ cases of in few countries and focusing on Germany and how this mergers affects union effectiveness especially workers performance.
(Industrial Relations Journal © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA.)
Although the case is different however this article show allot of similarity between my company trails to merge and demerge two of the business units I explained in week 1 DQ. And how the merge & demerge affects the Human Resources within the 2 business units.
Argument Academic Analysis:
The writers actually explain the study very well by giving brief introduction with reference to allot of researches did in this area and they refer to the other research results to support their findings. Also it was very organized as it starts ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, explain the core message MERGER STATUS AND UNION PERFORMANCE, focusing on Germany UNION MERGERS IN GERMANY, the discuss the business impact & legal impact to understand more the impact on Human Resources and finally close the article by CONCLUSIONS
Also there are always reference, use citing and quoting to researches and studies done and level is very high and academic where they used mixed approach (Harvard & Oxford)
Example:
Typically, a significant reduction in the total number of unions has been accompanied by the creation of huge, multi-industry ‘conglomerate unions’ (Streeck and Visser, 1997).
Recent research has explicitly sought to assess union effectiveness following merger. Typically, these studies have examined unions’ post-merger performance using a number of different indicators of organizational development (e.g. finances,
In this assignment I will analyze article called;” To merge or not to merge? The impact of
Union merger decisions on workers’ representation in Germany” by Martin Behrens and Andreas Pekarek. This article mainly explaining trade unions mergers’ cases of in few countries and focusing on Germany and how this mergers affects union effectiveness especially workers performance.
(Industrial Relations Journal © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA.)
Although the case is different however this article show allot of similarity between my company trails to merge and demerge two of the business units I explained in week 1 DQ. And how the merge & demerge affects the Human Resources within the 2 business units.
Argument Academic Analysis:
The writers actually explain the study very well by giving brief introduction with reference to allot of researches did in this area and they refer to the other research results to support their findings. Also it was very organized as it starts ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, explain the core message MERGER STATUS AND UNION PERFORMANCE, focusing on Germany UNION MERGERS IN GERMANY, the discuss the business impact & legal impact to understand more the impact on Human Resources and finally close the article by CONCLUSIONS
Also there are always reference, use citing and quoting to researches and studies done and level is very high and academic where they used mixed approach (Harvard & Oxford)
Example:
Typically, a significant reduction in the total number of unions has been accompanied by the creation of huge, multi-industry ‘conglomerate unions’ (Streeck and Visser, 1997).
Recent research has explicitly sought to assess union effectiveness following merger. Typically, these studies have examined unions’ post-merger performance using a number of different indicators of organizational development (e.g. finances,
References: Addison, J. T., C. Schnabel and J. Wagner (2007), ‘The (Parlous) State of German Unions’, Journal of Labor Research, 28, 1, 3–18. Behrens, M. (2009), ‘Still Married after All These Years? Union Organizing and the Role of Works Councils in German Industrial Relations’, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 62, 3, 275–293. Behrens, M., K. Hamann and R. Hurd (2004a), ‘Conceptualizing Labour Union Revitalization’, in C. Frege and J. Kelly (eds), Varieties of Unionism: Strategies of Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy (Oxford, Oxford University Press) pp. 11–31.