Pensions governance: The control of occupational pension schemes in the UK and Germany

Nöcker, Ralf

doi:10.1057/palgrave.pm.5940164

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“…The interview results highlight that companies are (morally) able to act-as already attested by Kessler [88], Nöcker [89], and Euwema et al [90]-and that employee representatives can exploit their communicative freedom of action, at least to a certain extent. In this context, they occupy a multitude of roles and are classified as "linking pins", as described by Likert and Likert [32].…”

Section: Potential For Realizing a Good Life At Workmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…Other studies on works councils dealt with a variety of topics, including employee representatives' roles in negotiating pension claims [88,89] or engaging in social dialogues within the organization [90], their contributions to entrepreneurial success [91,92], the historical development of the works council culture in Europe and in individual European countries [93], the relevance of works councils to entrepreneurial innovation [94], and the (stress-related) burdens faced by works councils [95,96], which are rather frequently caused by role conflicts [86,97].…”

Section: Academic Debates About and Research On Employee Representativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Employee Representatives and a Good Working Life: Achieving Social and Communicative Sustainability for HRM

Koinig

Weder

2021

Sustainability

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This article examines the role of employee representatives, who support HRM in positioning itself and the organization as “socially responsible”. Based on a constructivist understanding of organizational communication, employee representatives are examined as previously unrecognized entities that are responsible—and also essential—for guaranteeing a good working life, which also originates through communication. The article provides an overview of existing studies on employee representatives and their positions in companies and tries to bridge the gaps among organizational communication, CSR communication, and management theory by redesigning the role of employee representatives—who have received limited academic attention to date—as communicators. The insights from an international comparative study confirm that employee representatives perceive themselves not only as a “grief box” or “control body” of management, but also as a responsible agent and “medium” for the realization of social and communicative sustainability. This not only opens up new research perspectives, but also highlights the need to conceptually deal and theoretically discuss employee representatives and their roles in internal communication processes from the perspectives of organizational communication, HRM, CSR, and sustainability.

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Section: Potential For Realizing a Good Life At Workmentioning

confidence: 57%