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National Culture and Industrial Relations and Pay Structures
Author(s) -
Black Boyd
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00164
Subject(s) - corporatism , hofstede's cultural dimensions theory , industrial relations , structuring , collective bargaining , trade union , dimension (graph theory) , organizational culture , sociology , economics , economic geography , economic system , political science , management , labour economics , social science , law , politics , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics
The paper develops an explanatory model of comparative industrial relations and labour market structures based on national culture. The four cultural variables derived by Hofstede ( Culture’s Consequences , Beverly Hills: Sage, 1984) are used to investigate the relationship between national culture and various dimensions of industrial relations and pay structures. The paper finds national culture to be associated with the centralization of bargaining, the extent of corporatism, the degree of co‐ordination in bargaining, the coverage of collective bargaining, trade union density, the extent of worker participation in decision making, and most dimensions of the pay structure. Hofstede’s MAS variable, measuring cultural values representing gender social structuring, is associated with both industrial relations institutions and the pay structure. The results provide support for our cultural model.