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. What is critical to managing adjustment is the motives and the manner of their communication to the social partners affected by the adjustment process. While learnings from one case are not easily transferable to other cases, common learnings from the case studies can, however, be generalised. Some case studies are a bit too general. Information on the position of case study firm in industry, etc.