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The Global Strategies and Employment Relations Practices of the Hyundai Motor Company in Korea and India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Russell D. Lansbury ,
William Purcell ,
Chungsok Suh  and
Seung-Ho Kwon
Russell D. Lansbury
Affiliation:
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney
William Purcell
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Management, University of Newcastle
Seung-Ho Kwon
Affiliation:
Korea-Australasia Research Centre, School of International Business, University of New South Wales respectively
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Abstract

This paper examines the experience of the Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) managing its employees in a new plant established in Chennai, India. The establishment of the Indian plant in 1998 marked an important attempt by HMC to ‘relaunch’ its globalisation strategy after an earlier failure to manufacture in Canada. The ability of HMC to adopt an appropriate employment relations strategy in India will be an important factor determining its success as a global manufacturer. A key issue facing the Hyundai Motor Company of India (HMI) is the role to be accorded to unions and employee representation in the plant.

Type
Symposium on Alternative Ways of Organising: Asian Labour’s Response to the ‘New’ Globalisation
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , June 2003 , pp. 8 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2003

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Footnotes

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The authors wish to acknowledge the Australian Research Council (ARC) for their award of an ARC Discovery Grant for this research project.

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