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Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Wolfgang Potratz - An obituary. Direct and indirect participation: reconcilable voices? Report from Stream I. Erik Poutsma, Ulke Veersma -- The role of the institutional context for participation and interest representation in Hungary and beyond. Szilvia Borb� -- Informing and consulting employees in Poland. Problems of implementation of Directive 2002/14/EC. Maria Matey-Tyrowicz -- The institutional context of workers participation in Bulgaria: which way after joining the EU. Ekaterina Ribarova -- Employee participation in new forms of organization and control opportunity for company health policies or potential for new burdens? Nick Kratzer, Wolfgang Dunkel, Wolfgang Menz -- The role of trade union representatives in the conduct of workplace relations. Sonia McKay -- Work organisation, workers' participation and the role of EU legislation in Italy Volker Telljohann -- Managers and management: The impact of Western Foreign Direct Investment in the new EU Member States. Jochen Tholen -- The role of Industrial Relations and HRM in direct participation practice in Spain. Maria C. Gonzalez -- New forms of interest organisation: the state of the art. Mirella Baglioni -- Lights and shadows of employee participation in the new EU member states. Guglielmo Meardi -- The non-unionised worker and workplace problems: Forms of individual and collective voice at work. Anna Pollert -- Union organisation of employees in atypical and precarious work in Italy. Salvo Leonardi -- Giving employees a voice? Lessons from the new employee forums in the UK. Alan Tuckman, Michael Whittali -- Strategies of improving organizational performance through workplace participation. Report from Stream II. Paul Oehlke -- Role of workplace practices and supporting development process and institutional condition in the promotion of performance and quality of working life. Elise Ramstad -- Participation and organizational performance. Jan Kees Looise, Nicole Torka, Jan Ekke Wigboldus -- Good corporate governance and the function of obligatory employees' involvement: the concept of a sustainable company. Norbert Kluge, Sigurt Vitols, Peter Wilke -- Employee financial participation in Spain. Patricia Nieto Rojas -- Workplace quality as a "contested ground": comments on the ambivalence of workplace participation today. Wilfried Kruse -- Innovation, industrial relations and working conditions: evidence from two Italian local production systems. Davide Antonioli, Massimiliano Mozzanti, Paolo Pini -- Innovation and work quality. A field research. Loris Lugli, Stefano Tugnoli, 1res Emilia-Romagna -- "Hybrid Participation" - the missing link? The role of expert employees and support groups for the works councils in Germany. Karina Becker, Ulrich Brinkmann, Thomas Engel -- Direct participation as a way to safeguard a plant? The example of a German steel company. Ralf Niemann -- Workplace innovation and development in finland: Examining the workplace development programme TYKES. Tuomo Alasoini -- Quality of Working Life" on the agenda of Flemish regional policy. Paul Berckmans -- Employee participation in ninety-five investment projects. Experience and action priorities for public policies based on observations of SME practices. Komain Chevallet -- Improvement of the performance of SMEs and their employees by participation of employees in the Region North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany-Basic ideas, project examples, support structures and results. Friedhelm Keuken -- Making better use of potential to innovate! - some food for thought in the "Year of Innovation". Ulrich Klotz -- Employee participation in Europe: Propositions for designing a new research agenda. Report from Stream III. Valeria Pulignano -- Participation at inter-company level. Trade union cooperation to enhance voluntary and non-voluntary mobility in the valuechains. Annika Lantz, Peter Friedrich -- Managing the supply chain: corporate social responsibility or corruption and exploitation? Rainer Greca -- Construction subcontracting and international trade union cooperation: What role for european industrial relations? Nikolaus Hammer, Steve Davies, Glynne Williams -- From a reactive to a proactive approach of interactive leadership. Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen -- Workspace design: Participation in collaborative design processes. Ole Broberg -- Experiences on how to enhance participative and innovative capacities of employees in action research processes. Werner Fricke -- Promotion of participatory workplace practices through a publicly-funded programme: Experiences from Finland. Tuomo Alasoini, Asko Heikkil�Elise Ramstad, Pekka Yl�stalo -- Employee involvement in health and safety at work. Davide Dazzi -- Workers' participation - How to develop further the European Social Model. Gy�rgy Sz�. ISBN 9783631589434