Evaluate the evidence that the German system of industrial relations/ human resource management is converging towards the Anglo-American model.

Order Description please evaluate all the evidence that will be used to argue in this essay. i will upload more files later on. readings; • Bamber, G. J., Lansbury, R. D. and Wailes, N. (2011) International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and Change, London: Sage Publications [5th ed.] • Edwards, T. and Rees, C. (2011) International Human Resource Management: Globalization, National Systems and Multinational Companies, London: FT/ Prentice Hall [2nd ed.] [NB 3rd ed. available November 2016] • Harzing, A.-W. and Pinnington, A.H. (2014) International Human Resource Management, London: Sage Publications [4th ed.] or [2011, 3rd ed.] **Doellgast, V. and Greer, I. (2007) ‘Vertical disintegration and the disorganisation of German industrial relations’, British Journal of Industrial Relations 45(1): 55-76 **Gold, M. and Artus, I. (2015) ‘Employee participation in Germany: Tensions and challenges’, in S. Johnstone and P. Ackers (eds) Finding a Voice? New Perspectives on Employment Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chap. 9 **Haipeter, T. (2011) ‘“Unbound” Employers’ Associations and Derogations: Erosion or Renewal of Collective Bargaining in the German Metalworking Industry?’, Industrial Relations Journal 42(2): 174-94 Silvia, S.J. (2013) Holding the Shop Together. German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era, Ithaca/ London: ILR Press (Cornell University) Streeck, W. (2009) Re-Forming Capitalism. Institutional Change in the German Political Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.