Changing work and employment relations in globalizing Asia
Manila, Philippines, 20-21 November 2001
Track 1: Social dialogue and adjustments in work and organization
- Towards decent work and work environment
- The changing nature of work: socio-economic implications
- Labour standards: compliance and employment generation
- Eradication of child labour: the continuing challenge
- Gender and equity issues at the workplace
- Migrant workers: perspectives from host and exporting countries
- Balancing quality of work life, family life, and lifestyles
- Impact of information technology (IT) on work and employment relations
Track II: Employment Relations in Asia: Emerging Patterns and Innovations
- Corporate citizenship and the Asian worker and manager
- Ethical trade initiatives: impact on employment relations
- IR/HRD responses to privatization, mergers and acquisitions
- Negotiating flexibility in typical and atypical work arrangements
- Competency-based systems, innovations in compensation and reward, and related demands on other HR sub-systems
- New forms of work: impact on structure, work relations and HR systems
- New forms of employment networks: work and social nexus
- Public sector unionism, employment relations and governance
Track III: Asian Perspectives on Industrial Relations and Human Resource Development
- Emerging patterns and innovations in Asian IR/HRD
- Coping with crisis through labour law reforms and conflict mediation institutions
- Trade union responses to modernization and globalization
- New forms of organizing and bargaining: focus on the informal sector
- Workplace participation: co-management, co-ownership and other schemes
- Safety nets during crisis: who will lead, give and receive?
- Strategies and techniques for social inclusion and equity (the role of cooperatives, NGOs, labour-owned or -managed enterprises, etc.)
