New Social Inequality in Work Organisations: Challenges for the Eastern EU Member States
Published: 2011
Author(s) Name: Friedrich Fuerstenberg
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Abstract
Today, Eastern European economies
face the challenge to create a dynamic
labour market. New forms of
inequality accompany a still incomplete
post-socialist transformation.
They are aggravated by shortcomings
in setting up modern industrial
relations systems and advanced human
resource management practices.
The transformation of work
organisations has been largely a
“top-down” development marked by
massive governmental interference,
guidelines by imported managerial
staff and widespread fragmented
worker representation. Market-oriented
transformation in these states
we find a dual structure of social inequality
in work organizations: the
emergence of social partnership in
liberalized zones of growing prosperity
and negotiable inequality patterns,
co-existing with still large areas
of rather moderate social and
economic progress. This co-existence
is likely to persist, argues the author.
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