Rhetorics and realities of management practices in Pakistan: Colonial, post-colonial and post-9/11 influences

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Converging HRM practices? A comparison of high performance work system practices in MNC subsidiaries and domestic firms in Pakistan

“…rather than to open up compensation to more transparent policies that are likely to reward employees to a greater extent on merit (Jhatial et al, 2014).…”

“…Trade unions play almost no role in the economy: only 6.3 per cent of the workforce is unionized and a mere 2.2 per cent have a collective bargaining agent. The Industrial Relations Act 2010 does not allow any role to unions in retention, suspension, dismissal or laying off of employees (Jhatial et al, 2014), enabling companies to implement the HR practices that they deem to be most appropriate. Moreover, Paik et al (2011) argue that the institutional environment provides flexibility and options to MNCs to select whichever management practices are most appropriate for their operations.…”

“…Some evidence suggest that such a mind-set is true for private businesses (Jhatial et al, 2014). Thus, some evidence suggests that hiring and selection may be linked to sifarish (that is, personal connections or contacts that are used to benefit each other) (Mangi et al, 2012).…”

How complex domination enables selection: Academic hiring conventions in a Pakistani university

“…The events at TEU, a public sector university located in Pakistan, suggest that rudimentary and heterogeneous laws and regulations play an important role in providing leverage to top management in the hiring process. Since legislation in Pakistan has a colonial inheritance (Jhatial et al, 2014), it has a strong element of the perpetuation of domination through rules (Boltanski, 2011). Elites have historically ensured, in legislative processes, that laws serve the purposes of lawmakers.…”

“…An in-depth case study of one university allows this type of access. The context of our study, Pakistan, is useful for empirically elaborating the concept of complex domination and its boundaries, since Pakistan is a developing country with a colonial inheritance of power distance and structures of domination (Islam, 2004;Jhatial, Cornelius, & Wallace, 2014;Khilji, 2002).…”