Gestión del Trabajo en multinacionales. Un estudio a traves de encuestas a filiales en Argentina

The specialized literature in multinational companies maintains that the country of origin, the business sector, the settlement date, the company size in the country where it has settled, the branch level of autonomy with respect to the headquarter, and the union presence can be explanatory factors of the features assumed when managing the workforce in the local branches. In this context, the paper has two main objectives: firstly, to establish the different workforce management models in Argentina and, secondly, to analyze its connection with the different factors indicated by the specialized literature. By applying a Factorial and Cluster Analysis to an 83-firm dataset of multinational company branches settled in Argentina, we create homogeneous groups of firms in terms of their workforce management traits and relate these traits with the factors mentioned above. The analysis highlights as a relevant phenomenon the existence of a significant number of companies with traditional ways of management and low union participation, in a context of high unionization and a low degree of autonomy with respect to the headquarters; predominantly large, but associated to a smaller size of local subsidiaries, to production in commerce and services and to countries of origin such as the United States, France, Germany, and Italy.