State intervention and human resource management

 The state and intervention

Should government take a strong hand in the use of a country's human resources?

East Asian economies have been guided by interventionist governments. In other countries the trend has been has been in the opposite direction. With the collapse of the communist command economies in eastern Europe and the predominance of New Right ideology in English-speaking countries,state-ownership has gone out of fashion. In the UK, and even more so in New Zealand, the government further withdrew from many areas of economic regulation. The faith in the virtue of market forces was such that when significant areas of the economy collapsed or were taken over by foreign interests, government reaction was minimal (...)

  Read a series of articles drawn from a 1996 Symposium at the EJROT site: "The New Zealand Experiment" A World Model for Structural Adjustment with major contributors such as Noam Chomsky (focused on ideas in a book by Jane Kelsey)

  Minimum wages

Should governments set minimum wages? This is a key point of dispute between left- and right-wing thinkers. Yet minimum wage legislation has been adopted by governments in many developed countries. 

This page on HRMGuide.co.uk gives current and historical British rates: National minimum wage increases

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