This research note examines consultation in a British utilities company since privatisation in 1990, raising the general issue of how changing workplace requirements for representation can be met with varying degrees of success by different groups of workers and their unions. This can mean that...

This article examines the workings of co-determination in the German finance industry through two case studies examining the introduction of working time accounts. It is shown that the accounts posed important new challenges for employees and works councillors that represented variants of...

This paper critically reviews literature on the behaviour of US-based Multi National Companies (MNCs) in Germany in relation to the historic institutions of the German labour market: works councils and industry wide collective bargaining. The German system is becoming increasingly company-rather...

New developments in trust‐based working time systems (i.e. systems whereby managers formally devolve their responsibilities for monitoring working time) in Germany are examined. A picture of these systems is presented and the main debates reviewed. It is argued that the successful introduction...

Abstract Mit dem demografischen Wandel und dessen Folgen gerät eine spezifische Grundlage der Entwicklung der ostdeutschen Industrie unter Druck. Vor dem Hintergrund einer hohen Verfügbarkeit von Qualifikation, Motivation und Bindung quasi zum Nulltarif und anspruchs- und konfliktarmc...