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(Assignment 4) A description of North America and its IR systems.

Focus on the factors influencing the different systems of IR and their impact on the employer-employee relationship. Besides this aspect, a focus on the impact of environmental and contextual factors as well as on the role of national culture and institutions in the evolution and nature of IR could also be interesting.

Each team will have to present during the fist session its reflection.
You should NOT USE more than 2 SLIDES and the presentation MUST NOT exceed 8 min.

We live in an interactive society which is highly complex and dynamic. It is composed by differentiated groups, activities and institutional relations (Salomon). We as individuals, whether as managers, trade unionists or part of the general public, have only a partial direct experience of the full range of activities present in a society (Salomon).

To be able to describe the United States industrial relations we have to say that it is based on a Marxist perspective. A Marxist perspective assumes and emphasises, that the environment of the organization is a capitalist society (Salomon). In this type of society the system is privately owned, profit is the key influence on company policy and the control over production is enforced downwards by the owners' managerial agents (Salomon).

The Marxists theory of society says that:

· Class conflict is a source of society change.
· Class conflict arises primarily from the disparity in the distribution of, and access to, economic power within society.
· The nature of the society's social and political institutions is derived from this economic disparity and reinforces the position of the dominant establishment group.
· Social and political conflict in whatever form is merely an expression of the underlying economic conflict within society.

The industrial conflict faced by the inherent nature of the capitalist economy and society stem principally from the...