Research labor relations in JSCs in Hanoi city

1 PREAMBLE Urgency of topic research The reality has affirmed that human is an important and decisive source as well as a sustainable factor in all organizations; Where Labor Relations have a balance of interests, respect, support and cooperation between entities, this is called healthy relations Up to 31/12/2013, there were about 147.000 enterprises and approx 1.762.600 workers employed in kinds of enterprise [32, 33] in Hanoi In the forthcoming time, the number of enterprises and workers will continue to increase, directly affecting the city’s labor relations; Joint Stock Company (JSC) is the most popular kind of enterprise in the market economy, the number of new establishments rises sharply; in particular, there were 9660 JSCs in the whole country in 2006 As of 2012, the number of JSCs were 129066[33], while enterprises located in Hanoi accounted for a significant proportion, in particular, up to 31/12/2013 there were about 37.217 JSCs in Hanoi The management and use of human resources hasn’t been effective Up to now, thousands of strikes and lockouts took place in Vietnam, particularly in Hanoi there were 110 lockouts from 2008 to 2013 90% of which happened in industrial zones and export processing zones [18] The Secretariat of the Central Party promulgated the Directives No 22-CT/TW (dated 05/06/2008) on “Strengthen monitoring the formation of labor relations in friendly, stable and progressive environment”; Make such labor relations will contribute to create a healthy and stable environment for business and investment Therefore, I choose the topic of “Research labor relations in JSCs in Hanoi city” as my doctoral thesis Purposes and task of research The thesis’s purposes of research consist of: Based on systemizing and developing several basic theoretical issues about labor relations in enterprises and evaluating the real status of labor relations in JSCs in Hanoi during the last time, the thesis suggest some synchronistic solutions to improve labor relations in JSCs in Hanoi in the forthcoming time In order to achieve the research goals of the thesis above, the task of research consist of: (1)Systemize and develop several basic theoretical issues about labor relations in enterprises; (2) Research experience in managing labor relations of some countries in the world; (3) Evaluate the real status and factors affecting labor relations in JSCs in Hanoi; (4) Suggest some solutions to improve labor relations in JSCs in Hanoi in the forthcoming time Object and scope of research 3.1 Object of research The object of research is labor relations in JSCs in Hanoi This is labor relations at enterprise level in the market economy 3.2 Scope of research - For space: Subject of research is JSCs in Hanoi city, including those privatized from the State-owned enterprises (the State holds