Transcript Greece Italy Spain

Greece Italy Spain
Economics
• Greece
– Tourism = 15% GDP
– Agricultural products
– Manufactured goods
Economics
• Italy
– High quality textiles
– Motor vehicles
– Chemicals
– Fruit and vegetables
Economy
• Spain
– Agricultur products
– Chemicals
– Fish
– Pharmaceuticals
– Machine tools
Politics
President
Member of
Parliament
Greek
people
The president is elected by the members of
parliaments for 5 years
Members of parliament are elected by
Greek people for 4 years
Politics
President
Prime
minister
Italian
people
Ministers
Politics
King
President
National
Assembly
Culture
• Secular States
(lots of Catholics in Italy & Spain and Orthodox in Greece)
• Mediterranean cluster
• Hispanic cluster
• Latin cluster
• Near eastern
cluster
Labour market trends
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Self-employment
Casual and seasonal employment
High unemployment among young and unskilled people
Rising population of older workers
Rising number of immigrant workers
Labour market trends
• Working age
– Greece: 15 years old, 40h private service, 37.5h
public service
– Italy: 15 years old, 40h
– Spain: 16 years old (18 years overtime)
Labour market trends
Workorce distribution by occupation in 2006 (%)
Country
Agriculture
Industry
Services
Greece
12.4
20.4
67.1
Italy
4.7
25.2
70.1
Spain
4.2
24.1
71.7
Source: CIA World Factbook, 2010
Labour market trends
• Labour market highly regulated
• Strict laws
But
* Participation of women is still low
Labour market trends
Rising unemployment
Greece: * decline of the agriculture sector
* drastic limitation of recruitment in the
public sector
Labour market trends
Rising unemployment
Spain : 11%  2003
9.2%2006
18.5%2010
Temporary employment
• Strong presence of temporary jobs (in
summer)
• About 49% of Greek in this situation
• Find the best worker
Flexible working pratices
• Part time underdeveloped
Why ?
strong presence of small and medium business
They prefer to recruit sommeone with
temporary employment
Ownership and management practice
• Most companies are small or medium
• Family business and so unchanged
• Don’t have HR department
Managing human resources
• Studies Of hrm in european countries have
shown that the role of Human ressource
managers.
• We can notice that greece is less organize
about the HRM than the two others
Recruitment and selection
• Recruitment
• Headhunting
• newspaper,adsvertisment
• They use employment agencies for tempory
employees.
• Graduate recruitment
• 3 countries require qualities depending on the
company
• recruitment may be done by agencies or
newspapers through diploma
• Selection
• Individual interviews are the most commun form of
selection in all three countries
• In spain the short listed candidates are normally asked
to complete a standard questionnaire before the
interview
• In greece the interview may be just a formality when
the canddate is recommended or introduced through
word of mouth by a relative or a friend
• In italy interviews are replaced by tests and
axaminations.
Training and development
• Education
• greece involves 6 years of primary and 3 years of
lower cycle secondary education.
• Successful completion of the compulsory
education leads to the award of a diploma called
apolyterio .
• A large number of young people study for higher
degree outside greece in countrie such as UK
people study fir higher degree outside greece.
• Education
• In italy shcool education starts at the age of 6
• The first 5 years are for primary education and
the following 3 years are for the first stage
secondary shcool
• Now the education is reformed.
• Education
• In spain the shcool is free until the age of 15
• After 6 years of primary education,pupils
follow 4 years of secondary
• Obtain the BUP or FP , enter university
• Vocational training
• Vocational trainaing in the three countries is
still limited
• 3 types of training introduced:
• 1°regulated training at shcools
• 2°occupational training
• 3° continuing training
• Vocational training
• In greece vocational training in the form of
apprenticeship.
• Specific job by working with the master
Reward and remunaration
• The minimum wage
• In spain from 495 to 738 Euros
• In greece it increased from 542 euros per
month
• In italy there is no minimum wage
• Perfomance appraisal and performancerelated pay
• greece gives more importance the results
rather than formal appraisal of perfomance
• In Italy perfomance appraisal is also not not
readily accepted
Employee relations
• Trade unions
• In greece they are divided into primary level
Secondary level and tertiary level
organiazations.
• Trade union
• In italy different type of trade unions have
emerged at different times.
• Japonese model.
• Trade Union
• In spain trade union were formed over the
first quarter of the twentieth century.
• They became organized mainly on industrual
occupational or geophical lines.
• Trade union membership and density
• Collective bargaining
• Collective bargaining in italy takes place at the
national regional industry and organizational
levels.
• the bargaining process may coincide with a
strike.
• Collective bargaining
• In Spain
• Collective bargaining over salary increases
employment condition
• The Spanish Lesgislator requires all firm with 50
are one employees to form wrkers committees.