codetermination
business
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western European trade unions
- In organized labour: Breakup of the postwar settlement: Inflation, neocorporatism, and restructuring
“Codetermination,” as it was called in Germany and Sweden, provided workers with quasi-constitutionalized shop-floor representation on nonwage matters, such as work organization, that industrial unions had been unable or unwilling to address before 1968. Thus, in order to prevent a return of the representation gap…
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worker representation
- In industrial relations: Consultation and codetermination
…provides for a system of “codetermination,” or worker representation, on the supervisory boards of large companies. (Supervisory boards are similar to the boards of directors in American firms.) The supervisory board appoints executives to top management positions, including the Arbeitsdirektor, or personnel director. This person must be approved by the…
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