Embedding Social Process Analysis into Employment Relations Understanding: Theoretical Insights and Conceptual Underpinning

Abstract

The concept of social process is further explicated in this paper as a route to further understand employment relations system; in its comparative perspectives and analysis. The paper argues that analysis of employment relations needs to focus on context i.e. specifics, and cross national patterns of cultural/social process trajectories, in the explanation of institutional structures and characteristics that influence the dynamics and functions of a variety of employment relations systems. Review of extant literature on employment relations system calls for a re-cast, and embedding of social process into employment relations analysis. Such nuanced perspective seeks to adequately explain national employment relations institutions and their outcomes in historicity and context. Integrating cultural/social process nuances into our understanding, significantly explains all the dimensions embedded in a national employment relations system.