Industrielle Beziehungen

Entsolidarisierung von Führungsverhalten Und Mögliche Auswirkungen Auf Die Gesundheit**

Auer-Rizzi et al. (2005) outline a decrease in the solidarity of governance structures and leadership behavior in Germany and Austria. An Americanization of values appears to be taking place, both in the national/systems level and at corporate level. Beneath the anticipated decline in participation, identification, etc., their results reveal a remarkable similarity with epidemiological health studies, especially the so-called Roseto Story. The present article conceptually investigates the pos...

Impacts of Decentralisation - Erosion or Renewal? The Decisive Link Between Workplace Representation and Company Size in German and Danish Industrial Relations**

In recent decades Germany and Denmark have constituted survival areas for the classical IR system in an era that has otherwise largely been characterised by the deregulation and disorganisation of industrial relations. From the mid-1990s onwards, however, it has to varying degrees been possible to observe erosive tendencies in these hitherto sturdy fortresses of "organised decentralisation". It is the main thesis of this article that the dualistic German system makes it more difficult for the...

'Trade Unions at Whose Service?' Coercive Partnerships and Partnership in Coercion in Turkey's Metal Sector**

Partnership in coercion is defined as cooperation between trade unions and employers at the expense of workers' interests. It differs from coercive partnership by trade unions' not mandatory but willing participation for furtherance of their own interests that are detached from those of their members. The legal changes after 1980 in Turkey created the basic conditions for both of these partnerships patterns. The analysis of the metal industry bargaining system reveals that there are three add...

Determinanten Betrieblicher Innovation: Partizipation von Beschäftigten Als Vernachlässigter Einflussfaktor**

The small number of recent empirical studies that have dealt with the correlation between employee participation and success in entrepreneurial innovation fail to show any uniform results. This is due, on the one hand, to differences in the definitions of participation used, and on the other, to the diversity of the research methods. This paper is based on a broad definition of participation, which includes both co-determination, participative job design and knowledge management, and studies ...

The Global Workplace - Learning From Each Other

This report, from Modena, Italy, highlights the events at the Fifth International Conference in Commemoration of Professor Marco Biagi.

Neuheiten

Koordination auf Arbeitsmarkten. Bedeutung und Funktionsweise elektronischer Teilarbeitsmarkte, by Claus Recher, Andreas Erand, and Alfons Schmid, is reviewed.