Communiqué is the newsletter of the Foundation It is published 6 times per year and provides up-to-date news and information on the Foundation's work and research. This issue contains the following articles: Open dialogue a prerequisite for successful CSR; End of an era - an ode to Eric Verborgh
This literature review examines small business in the Czech Republic, including issues of collective representation and bargaining, working and employment conditions, arbitration procedures, size and sector considerations. It outlines policy implications. There is an additional statistical
SMEs constitute the dominant part of the Danish firm structure (Hoff, Jens, Demokrati på arbejdspladsen), especially in the manufacturing industries - dominated by craft-based producers. Many of the findings presented in this literature do not distinguish between SMEs and large firms. But at the
Research on industrial relations in Germany is generally lagging behind if compared to the US or Great Britain. This holds true for all company size classes. Furthermore, most of the existing German studies and investigations are focussed on large enterprises, where organisational structures for
A paper linking some of the main findings of the Foundation's Equal Opportunities and Collective Bargaining projects with the European Employment Strategy.
The is the final report from the research on 'The Firm and the Environment - Italy'. This report presents three case studies undertaken in 1994, with an updating chapter on each, together with a new case study which was concluded in March 1996. This research forms part of the Foundation's wider
A report on the EU's Environmental Management and Audit Scheme and its interaction with the management of safety and health. Systems for environmental management or health and safety management may be integrated or set up separately, or they may be part of an explicit total quality management
A digest final report from a four-year programme of work on employment and sustainability by the Foundation. The work described here is based on two pairs of competing hypotheses selected to reflect the expectations and fears of those in politics and business concerning these issues. It exploits the
Two key components of people's quality of life are the quality of the environment in which they live and the quality of the environment in which they work. This report examines the use of economic instruments to improve both of these components and looks at the linkages between them and how policy