Study Case – Honda Automobile Plants Strike
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Task:
The strike at Honda’s automobile plants in China is one of the best known cases in a wave of industrial disputes that arose in that country during 2010. It was examined in a series of contemporary media articles (two of which are attached below) and there have been more recent academic articles (some of which are listed below).
You are a senior Employment Relations Advisor to the CEO of Honda in China. You must write a report providing the CEO with two alternative strategies towards employment relations that would avoid the problems experienced in 2010 while at the same time sustaining the company’s performance.
Your report should identify two options:
• one option should be based on unitarist values, and
• the other on pluralist values.