Quality of Work and Employee Involvement in Europe

by Biagi, Marco

• ISBN13: 9789041118851
• ISBN10: 9041118853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Law Intl

Summary

The eighteen essays in this volume concentrate on the issues surrounding workers' participation, The area of industrial relations uppermost in Marco Biagi's thinking at the time of his assassination in March 2002. The trend toward ever greater employee involvement in managerial decisionmaking has been growing in Europe for over a decade, To a significant extent as a result of Biagi's work. From the start, he clearly discerned that the key to quality of work was worker participation. This book stands not merely as a homage, but as evidence that Biagi's assassination will not affect the progress he was making. In what amounts to an integrated series of recommendations for further European legislation on workers' participation in industrial relations, The authors analyse and evaluate the following: experience gained from implementation of the European Works Council Directive And The European Company Statute Directive; implications of the new Directive on Information/Consultation in National Undertakings and of the European Forum on the Financial Participation of Workers; and experience in a variety of national contexts, including those of Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, The United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Poland, and Slovenia. In the final analysis, employee involvement--when it is a genuine commitment on the part of all stakeholders--is seen as a sharing of cultural values that successfully reconciles efficiency and social justice. Those who believe this is a goal worth achieving, For reasons both economic and social, will recognize in this book an immensely valuable contribution.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Quality of Work, Industrial Relations and Employee Involvement in Europe: Thinking the Unthinkable?	p. 3
The European Works Council Directive: A Success Story
European Works Councils: A Success Story?	p. 25
European Works Councils Directive: A Success Story?	p. 49
The European Company Statute Directive and Workers Participation: A 30 Year Discussion Ended Happily
Workers' Involvement in the European Company	p. 63
The New Directive on Information/Consultation in National Undertakings and the Transposition Process: Where There is Smoke, There is Fire
Information and Consultation for Employees - Still Seeking the Philosopher's Stone?	p. 83
Employee Involvement in Japan: Can the Japanese-Style Information/Consultation System Survive?	p. 101
Financial Participation and New Industrial Relations: Who Pays the Piper, Calls the Tune?
Policy and Practice in European Financial Participation	p. 119
Financial Participation, Quality of Work and the New Industrial Relations: The Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective	p. 135
Financial Participation in France	p. 149
Financial Participation of Employees: The Italian Case	p. 171
The Financial Participation of Workers and the Role of Social Partners: The Belgian Case	p. 183
Financial Participation of Workers and the Role of Social Partners: United Kingdom Experience	p. 195
Workers' Financial Participation and the Role of Social Partners in Germany	p. 219
Employee Participation: The Way Ahead
Employee Participation: The Way Ahead	p. 247
Legal Aspects of Russian Workers' Participation in an Employers' Business	p. 257
Employee Involvement and EU Enlargement: A Love-Hate Relationship?
Employee Involvement and EU Enlargement - Polish Perspective	p. 263
EU Enlargement and Employee Participation: New Functions of an Inhereted Pattern within Slovenian Organizations	p. 279
Worker's Participation and EU Enlargement: A Theoretical Framework with Practical Application	p. 295
List of Documents	p. 315
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