The Participants' Guide is designed to be an integral and comprehensive package. You may like to Uiodify or add issues for discussion as appropriate. Each case is unique. Hence, each has to be approached differently considering its unique circumstances and characteristics. It is difficult to conceive a common strategy or approach to adjustment as such.
Government policies have major implications for adjustment.
In examining the adjustment issues, employers focus on product market characteristics while employees and trade unions focus on the labour market characteristics. Technological upheaval has a direct bearing on labour restructuring. Technological choices diminish in certain sectors which are exposed to global changes and intense competition. Trade unions find it difficult to accept technological determinedness. While some kind of resistance to change may be expected, the responses of employees and unions depend more on the process than outcomes of adjustment.