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study: Comparative approach based on company case studies (TRANSLAM) |
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"In
order to investigate the influence of industrial relations systems on the
effects of further training practices [in France and Germany - S.M.], a
comparative approach based on company case studies was adopted. Interviews
with further training specialists from both unions and employers' associations
were also conducted in both countries. It was assumed that French and German
firms of comparable size, operating in the same industry and competing
in the same product market, would be exposed to quite similar market pressures...
However, even though narrow product markets are the focus of attention,
it seems very likely that similar market pressures might make themselves
felt in different ways in different national and corporate contexts. Depending
on national social, institutional or economic conditions and the specific
circumstances of individual companies, the same market pressures might
be countered through investment in technology, reorganisation of the work
process, changes in the work force, adaptation of skill profiles and so
on.
Among the numerous, complex and interlinked determinants of firms' further
training practices, we focus only on the most important elements of the
labour market structure in both countries and on the institutional variables
shaping the national further training systems. These two sets of variables
will be used as a means of analysing firms' further training policies.
The only company-specific factors taken into account are industry, size
of firm, product market position, workshop-specific production and ownership
structure." (Schömann et al., 2002, p. 304f.) |
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