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...

1. The challenge -- 2. Archetypes of project resilience -- 3. The art of noticing -- 4. The art of interpreting -- 5. The art of preparing -- 6. The art of containing -- 7. The art of recovering -- 8. Roads to resilience.

Transposition of the EU information and consultation Directive means that the UK now has, for the first time, a general statutory framework giving employees the right to insist on being informed and consulted by their employers on a range of key business, employment and restructuring issues....