The project aims to expand and deepen the study of direct workers’ participation in management in partner countries, including unexplored sectors and businesses, where new technologies are implemented.
The researchers explore the relationship between direct participation in management and:
- humanising the work environment,
- improving skills and workplace welfare,
- improving worker satisfaction and motivation.
The researchers also develop a ‘Handbook of Good Practice Guidelines’. This publication aims to assist management and employee representatives to smoothly facilitate the introduction of new technologies through enterprise-level joint steering committees and joint implementation groups and for combining direct participation with other forms of representation and industrial relations, as well as corporate social responsibility practices.
The project also covers organising discussions between trade unionists and other workers’ representatives, managers and employers. They will debate the role of direct participation in the context of its social dimensions at national and transnational levels through the exchange of information and best practice examples.