Individual 35% – comparative research project

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  ASSESSMENT 2B
  Part B: Individual 35% – comparative research project
  Imagine you are consultant employed by a Jetstar Group to assess
  employment relations policies and practices in two different
  subsidiaries. You will be comparing different locations, social
  contexts, and political-economic systems. From your research,
  you will select relevant policies and practices to develop your
  client’s employment relations.
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  Questions to guide your essay
  For your allocated country company and one other country company,
  compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the ER
  systems and processes. Therefore, look at the social environment,
  laws and policies that influence each country.

1. What are the main elements (parties, laws, processes) of the
   employment relations systems of these two countries?
2. Arising from the Coronavirus outbreak, what challenges exist for
   the Jetstar Group cooperates in seeking to have a standard approach
   to HRM adopted internationally?
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   You will need to incorporate the following elements from your studies:
   •Review relevant theories/ ER Models or Approach of each country
   •Identify the influence of the local country culture on ER policy and
   practices in each country
   Some questions for you to address are:
   Why is a company practicing differently in other countries?
   Which stakeholders influence these practices?
   What challenges has each country’s company faced in the
   internationalisation process during this pandemic ?
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   Tips: To respond to these key questions you
   should consider:
   What does your comparison reveal about the influence of the
   Coronavirus outbreak, local factors (culture, parties and process) on
   these strategies?
   What are the most important elements that Jetstar can adopt for each
   country’s best fit ER/HRM model?
   What are the lessons learnt from this comparison for attempts by the
   low-cost airline industry to develop a workable international model
   of ER/HRM for specific situation and national country settings ?
   Provide high-quality recommendations for Jetstar companies to
   adopt in their ER/HRM policies and practices in these two locations.
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   Structure of your report
3. Introduction
   -Topic of your report and your key research questions
   -Rationale of doing it
   •In general, why is an understanding of this comparative topic
   important in international ER studies? How does this issue
   challenge for current ER system ?
   •In particular, for low-lost airline industry, What have Jetstar’s
   challenges in ER/HRM policy and practices? How does important
   for us to understand these challenges?
   -Structure of your body: What key issues will you review or analysis
   in this report (your sub-issues)
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4. Body
   2.1 Literature review: Key theories that you are going to use to debate/
   analysis the topic (e.g. globalisation, standardisation >< convergent theories, VoC theory, Best practices>< Best fit…)
   2.2 Sub-heading 1 (countries comparative: responses to question 1).
   In this section you should have three main themes:

• Describe a current contextual factors of ER: cultural, political, economic
  factors that impact on ER system of each country  what VoC model they
  belong to
  -Describe parties, laws, processes of ER systems of those two countries
• What were similarities/ or differences between these companies HRM
  systems and practices ? Why?
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  2.3 Sub-heading 2 (Jetstar companies comparative: responses to question 2)
  Current Jetstar HRM practices in each country company and how the contextual
  factors have impacted on their practices  Challenges to Jetstar to apply
  standardization or localization and why?
  You should discuss key themes that were developed from above review:
  What were similarities between these companies HRM systems and practices ?
  Why?
  What differences between these companies HRM system and practices? why?
   Identify key challenges of Jetstar in each country to apply standardization during
  the Covid -19 Pandemic
  Using the above theories to help you to debate this section (Best Fit model of HRM
  –Harvard model; Convergent divergent model of HRM; Standardisation vs

Localisation).

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4. Recommendations

• for international and comparative ER studies and
• for Jetstar to achieve the best outcomes of their HRM practices during this
  Pandemic.

4. Conclusion
   A summary what you have written in the essay
5. References requirement
   You are asked to reference a minimum of 10 academic sources for this essay.

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