Contradictions in human resource commitment and employment-at-will policies

Abstract

Employment in the U.S. appears to be subject to two broad, conflicting influences. Foreign competition and declining productivity have resulted in the suggested development of a commitment strategy in employment relations. Current administration policy towards employment, it is argued, combined with prevailing, notions of employment-at-will are in essential, tension with international standards of employment security and the content of the “new industrial relations” policies advocated by human resource practitioners and researchers.