2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Studies about the formation of co-determination system in Germany after the second world war.
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14530153
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | Nihon University |
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Principal Investigator |
HIRASAWA Katsuhiko Nihon University, College of Commerce, Professor, 商学部, 教授 (70181154)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | Co-determination / Work council / Industrial Union / Englisch army of occupation / Industrial Democracy / management participation / Industrial peace |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to follow the formation process of co-determination system in West Germany under occupation. Through such a study I aim to clarify the particularity of industrial relations that regulate personnel management at the German companies.
Generally industrial relations in Germany are characterized by a coexistence with industrial union and work council in companies and/or establishments. Currently both organizations share its role. But the work councils established immediately after the world war II help a reconstruction of trade unions, while unionists that are active in the Weimar period organized not only trade unions but also work councils. Therefore both organizations are close related together under occupation. Immediately after the war many unionists intended to organize a general union based on work councils. However a federation of labor unions is organized in cooperation with Christianity labor union, separating from work councils because of the suspicion with work councils and opposition between political parties etc.
Some work councils was asking for the participation in managerial decision-making, denazification of work place and so on from criticism of Nazi-regime. The British Allied-Forces and companies accepted requests relatively moderate trade union and made the workers participate in managerial decision-making to guarantee the justification of management control and to stabile labor relations in company. It could be concluded that the purpose of co-determination system in Germany to ensure the justification of management control and to stabile labor relations in company against a background of changing status of German unionism directly after the world war II.
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Research Products
(8 results)
