TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LABOUR RELATIONS & TRADE UNIONS
Chapter 5: Employment systems
Lecturer: Hoang Thi Tuong Vinh, MA.
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Alternative employment systems (patterns)
The roles of business strategy in shaping
employment patterns
Social dialogue in enterprises
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How employers structure the employment relationship
Informal
Bureaucratic (high-end & low-end)
Human Resources Management (HRM)
Employment patterns cover:
Work Rules, Management style, pay, and
relations between workers & managers
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Examples: self-employment, homework, transportation, construction,
domestic workers, home based workers, street vendors, garment workers,
smallholder farms, very small firms.
Managers have a lot of discretion.
Social benefits and labor laws either do not apply or are not enforced.
Informal employment accounts for over 50% of the Global
Workforce and it has not been declining.
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