Ameliorating Adverse Effects of Globalization on Employment Relations in Zimbabwe

Globalisation has been associated with accelerated deregulation and withdrawal of government from the workstation, (Sweeney, 2004). The advent of globalisation has forced organisations in Zimbabwe to deal with implications such as loss of market, response to competition, technological and legislative changes. A conundrum that have witnessed a change in human resources policy, employee compensation, business strategies among others. These changes have also resulted in massive shift in employment relations between employers and t employees and relations between employees and their unions. Subsiquent to this background, this article's objectives are to identify challenges occasioned by globalisation on employment relations in Zimbabwe and proffer mechanisms to ameliorating the adverse effects of globalisation. A qualitative phenomenological research was adopted making use of interviews, researcher field notes and memoirs to gather data on participants' experiences. Results were analysed using Nvivo 10 and manual coding. Results identified six main challenges namely (1) strife between employers and employees (2) dwindling employee democracy (3) employee marginalisation (4) increased disputes (5) general dissatisfaction of all parties and (6) disunity among unions and workers. The study recommended four mitigating strategies namely contextualising globalisation; making use of training and education; increased employee involvement; and use of dialogue and communication. If these factors are considered a fair globalization can be achieved.