14th IIRA World Congress

Seminar on industrial relations, future trends and challenges of globalisation, 12 September 2006, Lima, Peru

Chair: Timo Kauppinen, Research Manager, European Foundation, Ireland

15.30Globalisation challenges for Europe
Welcome
Jorma Karppinen, Director, European Foundation, Ireland [presentation, pdf, 2064KB]

15.50 Benchmarking European industrial relations against global development - Objectives of the workshop
Timo Kauppinen, Research Manager, European Foundation, Ireland [presentation, pdf, 497KB]

16:00 Industrial relations country profiles in the continental perspective

• Australia, Nick Wailes, Senior Lecturer in Work and Organisational Studies, Univeristy of Sydney

• Brazil, Helio Zylberstajn, Professor, Department of Economics, University of São Paolo [presentation, pdf, 17KB]

• China, Jie Shen, Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, University ofSouth Australia [presentation, pdf, 15KB]

• India, Venkata Ratnam, Director, International Management Institute, New Delhi [presentation, pdf, 68KB]

• Japan, Shunichi Uemura, Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training, Tokyo [presentation, pdf, 128KB]

• South Africa, Philip Hischsohn, University of the Western Cape [presentation, pdf, KB]

• USA, Sean Sweeney, Cornell School of Industrial & Labour Relations [presentation, pdf, 119KB]

17:30Coffee

17.45 Benchmarking industrial relations - future trends and challenges
Discussion
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18.30Closing the seminar**
Jorma Karppinen, European Foundation

Contact details

Further information from Camilla Galli da Bino, Information Liaison Office for Industrial Relations.