The education and labour systems have a strong impact on the firm capabilities of the business systems. In the following paragraphs we will introduce the main concepts, identifying the main advanced business systems, analysing the different labour systems and education systems, and showing two examples of contrasting countries where the education and labour systems have shaped the way capabilities are developed.
To start with, in order to analyse how education and labour systems affect organisational capabilities, we will discuss the context in which we will use each of those concepts:
There are three advanced business systems: Compartmentalised, collaborative and highly-coordinated business.
• Traditional compartmentalised is mainly driven
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In cases like the car industry, blue collar jobs don’t have high reputation and there is a high level of managerial coordination and control, supporting a strategy of low cost and price of standardised outputs.
The generalist system also works well for ventured work systems, such as companies in high technology and biotechnology, because its labour force is mainly focused in graduates and postgraduates, which does not require further educational or training investment, as the formal system has already heavily invested in them. Those companies have shown reconfigurational capabilities, for a competitive strategy of radical, discontinuous innovation.
In contrast, Germany has a strong dual training systems, with extensive cooperation between employers and the educational system that last for many years. The systems has a high degree of “credentialism”, for broader and more flexible practical skills, with standard technical qualification, that are recognised among the different companies. In consequence, in the German work system, there is more integration of formal and technical
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These capabilities have made companies successful in the strategy of continuously improving products for differentiated markets.
Labour systems
In the US, for the traditional compartmentalised systems, the formal authority is mainly contractual, and autonomy and involvement in decision-making is lower than in communitarian systems. Taylorism is widely used in this system and the automotive sector is a good example of its application, with low delegation of responsibility and standard assembly lines.
The American ventured companies, with venture work system, have special methods to align incentives between owners, management and employees. The companies provide stock options to top managers, as well as junior employees. The focus is on company’s profitability, which is the main objective in market oriented companies, with public ownership and employees with no legal security of their
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The scope of the dissertation will be limited to the US. The limitation to the US is essential to limit the number of variables, or factors, that influence evidence that could contradict or convolute the conclusion. All countries throughout the world have their own culture, governments and customs that dictate labor and business practices. The countries have also developed at different rates and in different time periods. It...
The report of Robert Reich: “Why the Rich are getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer,” is an eye opener and a warning for society regarding unemployment that it will be facing and is currently facing due to a lack of technology and education. It clearly articulates that the jobs of routine producers and in-person servers have vanished totally as modern techniques have replaced them. The author has stated that the only people whose jobs are on the rise are symbol analysts. As stated in the report, symbol analysts are the real problem solvers. Their skills are highly in demand worldwide because they are the ones who first analyze the problem and then solve it. The Hart Report, on the other hand, also states the same problem of unemployment and the global recession which has left employers focusing on employees not only with specialists’ skills but also a “broader range of skills and knowledge” (page 6-7). The Hart Report clearly reflects what the needs of contemporary employers are, but the question is whether it is the universities or the students themselves who fail to cope with the requirements of the contemporary world which is filled with technological advancement and critical thinking. The Texas Work Source has also played an important role in examining what is actually missing in today’s generation and the reasons behind such a great decline in employment. The central
As a result of the shift of power and the new role undertaken by human labor, education became increasingly important. A privilege once reserved for the upper class, education was afforded to the working class in an effort to improve industrial efficiency. ...
In the late 19th century, Frederick Winslow Taylor, known to many the forefather of scientific management, sparked the automation revolution, the third great transition in the history of humanity (after the Neolithic Revolution, a result of the development of agriculture around 6,000 B.C and the industrial revolution in the 18th century) (Souza, 1999). However, it can be argued that Taylor’s greatest contribution to capitalism was not the revolution itself, but how Taylorism brought about the era of competition and syncretism with contrasting or corresponding concepts on organisational management and workplace practices, particularly Fordism, which arguably extended the dynamics of Taylorism, centered on the use of the assembly-line. This essay will examine how Fordism developed organisational management and modified workplace practices by exploring known historical application of its principles and theories. Thereupon, it will further analyse how elements of Fordism still exist in modern management sciences, taking example from Nike’s organizational system.
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...d how mode of production was replaced by large corporate and government organizations. In short, an institutional pattern as such would not function in society unless somehow society was overpowered by demands or conditions.
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of a firm to attain new forms of competitive advantage (Müller, 2011). It is due to these
Freedman (1992, as cited in Thompson and McHugh, 2009, p. 195) shares the belief of many managers and scholars regarding scientific management, or Taylorism: it is “out-of-date and ‘positively counterproductive’ in a ‘world of perpetual novelty and change’”. In other words, the elements of scientific management developed by Frederick Taylor in the early 20th century, the scientific standardisation of work and selection of workers, division and specialisation of labour, workforce training and surveillance based on set standards, and performance-related pay (Khurana, 2009), are deemed incompatible with the modern business environment. However, looking closely at these aspects of work design, it appears that they are in fact comparable to those used today.
The American Automotive Industry, popularly known as the U.S. Automotive Industry is one of the most rapidly evolving industries in North America. It is generally oligopolistic with a few players who in the past have been known to avoid price competition among themselves. The industry consists of industries manufacturing vehicles, car parts, replaceable parts and those engaged in assembling parts into complete models. However, the most dominant players in this industry are the vehicle manufacturers. The players design various models, produce the various parts that each model needs and assemble them into a finished product before availing them to the market. General Motors, Chlysler and Ford motors, dominate the U.S. Automotive mobile. They are popularly referred to as “The Big Three”.
Innovation can be seen as a mechanism to adapt the company in a dynamic environment (Hurley and Hult, 1998). In order to survive in the high market competition, the company's ability to innovate products is indispensable. Rosenbuusch, Brinckmann, and Bausch (2011) stated in their research that innovative products can increase the future purchase broadly and improve brand performance. Holland, Schekleton, and Na (2011) found brands that successfully manage to sustain their products in highly competitive markets are more innovative. Customers are more likely to develop a positive perception of the brand that emphasizes on innovation and developing creative product designs. With the positive perception of the customer to the product brand, the good brand image can be built.
Knowledge, readiness, preparedness of people as workers has a significant effect on the corporate performance. Elementary and higher education system shall prepare the knowledge of students for the successful work, but most of the requirements come from the employer. Some elements of knowledge, ability and skills are to learn only in the organization.
Therefore a shortage of skills within regards to the state of a country’s financial capital means that it is difficult for the economy to prosper because it does not have the necessary capital (in terms of workers) to grow. Not only is labour one of the four factors of production involved in the business environment, but it is the one factor that connects all other things (Tutor2u.net, 2014). Hence, without a capable labour force the economy will remain stagnant. Therefore education becomes an important factor relating to a shortage of skills restraining the economy because education is the basis of all learning for humans and provides the youth (which are the economy’s future) with skills to hold them in good stead for the rest of their lives.