Negotiating Competitiveness: Employment Relations and Organizational Innovation in Germany and the United States.

Abstract

Negotiation versus unilateralism in employment relations - how labour, business and government act and interact and what it means for competitiveness framing the employment relations context - how employment relations structures influence business and labour strategies industrial adjustment at the enterprise - how management and labour navigate change at the work place industrial adjustment and skills development - how employee training processes and outcomes reflect and influence adjustment strategies negotiation versus unilateralism - why German managers like collective employee representation employment relations in Eastern Germany - how the negotiated model works out of context decline of the negotiated model? what's wrong and what's right with the German model negotiating competitiveness in the United States - building on the strengths of American employment relations.