"A framework for studying ILO’s productivity and management development missions"

This paper has three aims. First, it will present ILO’s overall policy on productivity and management development and discuss how these two tasks were interlinked in the context of ILO’s tripartite principle, which means that the activities should be supported by national government, the unions, and the employers’ association. Second, the paper will discuss some factors that we assume were important for the success of the projects at national level. These factors include the competence profile of the specialists that ILO sent to a country, political stability, the role of the government, unions, and business organization, and the character of business networks. Third, the paper will also discuss the relevance of the concepts Americanization and the Global South for understanding processes of introducing productivity and new methods for management development in the developing countries.