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European Works Councils (european + work_council)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting100%

Selected Abstracts

Towards a European Labour Identity: The Case of the European Works Council , Edited by Michael Whittall, Herman Knudsen and Fred Huijgen

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 6 2008
Kasia Gajewska
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Negotiating European Works Councils: contours of constrained choice

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 1 2002
Mark Gilman
This paper presents a systematic analysis of the factors influencing the nature of the ,constrained choices' being made by management and employee representatives in concluding agreements establishing EWCs. Four influences,a ,statutory model effect'; a ,learning effect'; a ,country effect'; and a ,sector effect',are found to be at work. [source]

The Impact of European Works Councils on Management Decision-Making in UK and US-based Multinationals: A Case Study Comparison

BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 2 2004
Paul Marginson
The operation of European Works Councils (EWCs) is taking management and employee representatives in MNCs into uncharted territory. In particular, for companies headquartered in Anglo-Saxon economies there is little domestic tradition of statutory employee consultation. Drawing on comparative case studies, this article investigates the impact of EWCs on the process and outcomes of corporate-level management decision-making in UK and US-based MNCs. Variation in EWC impact arises from the interaction of structural factors, such as business focus, management organisation and pre-existing industrial relations arrangements, and agency factors, including management policy and the cohesion of employee representatives. [source]

Transnational worker representation and transnational training needs: the case of European works councils

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2001
Doug Miller
The ongoing establishment of transnational information and consultation set in train by the European Works Council Directive of September 1994 is estimated to impact on approximately 25,000 employee representatives in some 1200 multinationals based in the EEA and beyond. This presents labour educators with enormous opportunities and challenges. Specific research questions which emerge in this context concern the extent to which such representatives have a set of generic and therefore transnational training needs in the area of skill, knowledge, and values/attitudes. Second, there is the extent to which existing methods of training needs identification are appropriate to detect and specify both individual and collective/organisational needs at this level. A third question concerns the prospects for transnational worker representatives to embed training needs analysis in their practice. This article attempts to shed some light on these questions. [source]

Workers' Participation in Decision,Making Processes and Firm Stability

BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 4 2002
Shlomo Mizrahi
This paper argues that firm efficiency and stability, as well as workers' satisfaction, can be achieved through participatory decision,making rules. It offers theoretical rationales and empirical illustrations based on the framing and operation of European works councils. Employees should take part in establishing the rules; otherwise managers will make rules that allow them to retain control of the key points in the decision,making process. In constructing such rules the involvement of unions is required; however, once rules are set union activity becomes marginal. Government intervention remains marginal throughout. [source]