Open AccessProductivity Implications of Changing Employer Attitudes and Strategies
Author(s) -
Barry Foster,
Erling Rasmussen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
labour, employment and work in new zealand
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2463-2600
DOI - 10.26686/lew.v0i0.1713
Subject(s) - productivity , demographics , affect (linguistics) , individualism , wage , sample (material) , private sector , demographic economics , wage growth , labour economics , marketing , public relations , economics , business , political science , economic growth , sociology , market economy , demography , chemistry , communication , chromatography
The paper discusses two debates; the rise of individualism in employment relations and the role of employers attidudes and strategies in this shift. Secondly the affect this is having on achieving a highwage high skills economy. The methodology for this paper used three surveys providing a national coverage of private sector organisations employing ten or more staff. These were undertaken using a crosssectional design where the surveys matched the sample demographics used by previous New Zealand studies. Semistructured interviews were also carried out. The main findings are that the New Zealand ’experiment’ in employment relations that has been carried out over the last 23 decades has not produced the high productivity growth that was intended by its designers.