Essay question: Compare and contrast an aspect of employment relations in any two Southeast Asian countries(SAC). What are the causes of the differences between the two?
- You may choose any aspect of employment relations for this essay. Two suitable aspects of employment relations would be the state and trade unions.
- You may choose any aspect of employment relations for this essay. Two suitable aspects of employment relations would be the state and trade unions.
The Journal of Industrial Relations devoted a whole edition in 2016 (vol. 58, no. 2) to employment relations and the state in Southeast Asia, with articles on Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Cambodia and Myanmar. Two of those articles would provide a solid basis for your research for this essay. You would also need to find additional materials to supplement those JIR articles.
- Benson and Zhu (2008) has chapters on unions in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Any two of those chapters would provide a good foundation for an essay on unions - again, those two chapters would need to be supplemented with additional materials of your own.
• Benson, J & Ying Zhu,Y (eds) 2008, Trade unions in Asia: An economic and sociological analysis, Routledge, London.
Essential materials for the essay
- You must use a minimum of six scholarly sources in your essay.
Assignment marking criteria
- The assignment is an essay question and your answer must be in essay format; that is, it must be structured around an argument that answers the question.
- The essay will be marked according to the following criteria: understanding of the issues raised by the question and comprehensiveness; written expression; structure; use of sources; originality; and presentation. A Marking Criteria table setting out the standards of these criteria in detail will be available on the course Blackboard.
- Other requirements
- Use 12 point font, 1.5 or double line-spacing and 2cm wide margins. Number your pages.
- HARVARD referencing