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Norbert Kluge

Senior researcher

Bio/Description

Since he got trained as social scientist (at University of Göttingen) he hikes between the worlds of academic research and trade unions. In the beginning evaluating why institutional reform of universities did not effect what they intend, but achieved what nobody expected before (at the University of Kassel 1979-1988) he changed his professional role by getting a project manager of Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf, in the field of industrial relations and co-determination (1988-2002). Now, from end of 2002 on, he came back to conduct original research himself again by setting up the project SEEUROPE in the ETUI and evaluating the field of workers participation at European level and the implementation of the legislation on the European Company (SE) � www.seeurope-network.org. Enjoys to see awaking big cities in the early morning.

Last modified: 13/12/2005 6:19 pm

CV

  • Born 1955 in Kassel, Germany, Diploma at University of Göttingen, Ph.D. Ph.D. 1994 at University of Kassel.

  • 1979 -1988 junior researcher at the Center for research on Higher Education and Work,University of Kassel.

  • 1988 - 1996 research manager in the research promotion department of Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf.

  • 1996 and 1998 research manager of the �Commission on Co-determination and new corporate cultures� of Hans Böckler Foundation and Bertelsmann Foundation at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Studies of Societies inCologne.

  • 1999 - 2002 Head of �Forum Co-determination and enterprises�, a joint initiative of Bertelsmann Foundation and Hans Böckler Foundation to identify and promote best practices of cooperative labour relations

  • 2002 - research fellow of ETUI.

Projects

MANIC - Provisions and practices of Managing Industrial Change with Workers' Involvement

The project aims to link workers' participation to the challenges of workers and their trade unions in  the concrete field of industrial change at enterprise level, also by implementing measures of industrial policy. In a European perspective the project prepares examples of restructuring in different cross-border operating enterprises and different places. The case studies will be evaluated against a kind of criteria of social accountability of the change process. Models can be expected how enterprises and their employees can contribute to fill in the European social model concretely and to meet the targets of the Lisbon strategy.

The Impact of the EU Legal Framework on Worker's Participation Practices

In line with the ETUC Action Program on  "Expanding and Reinforcing the area of European Industrial Relations" (3) with a view to "Information, consultation and worker participation for managing change" (d) in co-operation with European Industry Federations (EMF and EMCEF) the project is focusing on the way as workers' participation practices will develop in the acceeding CEE countries at the backround of the relevant EU legislation and how these practises will have a feed-back to the European Social Model.

GOODCORP - What makes a good corporate governance in Europe?

Major objective of the project is to observe and to assess the activities of the EU Commission, mainly of DG market, in this field of corporate governance in order to provide with topical support and advice from a trade unions point of view.

Transfer of Innovative Corporate Cultures

participation-oriented corporate culture as a decisive factor in success - exchange of experience and approaches for development and derivation of participation-oriented corporate cultures to shape the future.

SEEUROPE - The Influence of the EU Directive on Worker Involvement

Major activity of the Seeurope-project is to pursue monitoring the introduction of workers' participation at European level, to collect and present all relevant information on the issue on an particular website of ETUI-REHS www.seeurope-network.org and to invest in conceptual thinking on how workers' participation fits in realization of the European Social model. Analytically, SEEUROPE intends to find out the contribution of workers' board level representation to a Europeanization of industrial relations.

GOODCORP - What makes a good corporate governance in Europe?

Globalisation puts each national system of industrial relations under pressure. The organisation of enterprise crossover links with an ongoing trend to finance companies from global capital markets require a huge extent of mechanism of monitoring business operations. Managers are asked to implement internally what they provide to the public. This concerns social treatment of their workers as well as ethical and sustainable behaviour of the company. Companies felt forced to report systematically on their 'Corporate Social Responsibility' or to explain their agreement to the principles of the UN-Global Compact, the OECD guidelines on multinationals and on corporate governance or to specific codes of conduct. At least companies may notice positive effects from participation on their economic performance.  

Contacts

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Publications

We are updating the list of the publications. Please come back in a few weeks.

L'Europe: un espace pour la participation des travailleurs

Documents de travail pour l'université d'été de la CES/ETUI-REHS

Stockholm - Runö, 30 juin et 1 juillet 2006

Europe: space for workers' participation

A background paper for the ETUC/ETUI-REHS top-level summer school

Stockholm - Runö, 30 June and 1 July 2006

The European Company - Prospects for worker board-level participation in the enlarged EU

2005

  • 'Information, consultation and participation', in ETUI (ed), Benchmarking Working Europe 2005 , Brussels: ETUI, 68-80 (together with Kerckhofs, Peter and Michael Stollt) .(link to Benchmarking report)

  • 'Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung: Elemente guter Unternehmensführung in Europa', Powerpoint-presentation to 6.GPA-Konzerneforum, St. Pölten, Januar 2005

2004

  • 'Workers' involvement in Europe - A still unfinished jigsaw', in Jorgensen, Henning, Mette Baerentsen and John Monks (eds), European Trade Union Yearbook 2003/2004 , Brussels: ETUI, 115-136.

  • 'Workers' representation at board level in the new member states', in ETUI and Hans-Böckler-Foundation (ed), The European Company - prospects for board-level representation , Brussels and Düsseldorf: ETUI, 69-74 (together with Michael Stollt). www.seeurope-network.org

  • 'Handle with care. How economic civil rights in Europe are taking shape', Mitbestimmung , 8 (engl. edition), 8-13.

2003

  • 'Pragmatical multinationals. Their impact on industrial relations', Mitbestimmung , engl. Edition (together with Bela Galgoczi)

  • 'Management Styles and Worker Participation in Foreign Companies in the EU applicant Countries Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary', Transfer , 1, (together with Eckard Voss), 55-61

  • 'Managementstile und Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung bei ausländischen Unternehmen in Polen, Tschechien und Ungarn', WSI Mitteilungen , 56: 1, 66-69, (together with Eckard Voss).

  • 'Soziale Verantwortung der Unternehmen im Mix von Verbindlichkeit und Freiwilligkeit', Impulsreferat zum 4. GPA-Konzerneforum am 26.11.2003 in Wien, www.gpa.at.

  • Mitbestimmung für die Zukunft. Ergebnisse und Fazit aus der Arbeit des �Forum Mitbestimmung und Unternehmen� 1999 � 2003. Gütersloh: Verlag der Bertelsmann Stiftung (edited together with Birgit Riess).

2002

  • Der Mensch im Mittelpunkt. Beschäftigungsorientierte Unternehmensstrategien und Mitbestimmung , Köln: Bund Verlag (ed. by Susanne Gesa Müller, author).

  • 'Corporate Social Responsibility - the Dawn of a European Corporate Culture?' Mitbestimmung , english edition: 46-49.

  • Mitbestimmung in der digitalen Wirtschaft - (k)ein Widerspruch., Gütersloh: ed. by Bertelsmann Stiftung and Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.

  • 'Alte Industrie - neu aufgestellt', Mitbestimmung , 9, 56-58 (together with Ute Götzen).

2001

  • 'Managers of Cross-cultural Change', Mitbestimmung , english edition, 40-43, (together with Sigurt Vitols).

  • 'Vorteil Mitbestimmung: Vom Nutzen innerbetrieblicher Kooperation', in Sperling, Jörg Abel und Hans Joachim (ed) Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten. Perspektiven nationaler und internationaler Arbeitsbeziehungen . Walther Müller-Jentsch zum 65. Geburtstag, München: Rainer Hampp Verlag, 169-186 (together with Axel Hauser-Ditz).

  • '"Wilde Ehen"? Mitbestimmungspraxis und -bedarf in der New Economy', Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte, 4, 229-236.

  • 'Mitbestimmung und New Economy', in Ittermann, Jörg Abel and Peter (ed), Mitbestimmung an den Grenzen. Arbeitsbeziehungen in Deutschland und Europa , München: Rainer Hampp Verlag, 89-108 (together with Vera Schiemann).

  • 'Pionierarbeit. Mitbesitz und Mitbestimmung', Mitbestimmung , 3, 38-41 (together with Axel Hauser-Ditz).

Before 2001

  • 'La codétermination dans les établissements et l'avenir du modèle allemand des relations professionelles', Chronique Internationale de l'IRES,, 59, 26-32 (1999, together with Anke Hassel).

  • 'Die quantitative Entwicklung der Mitbestimmung in Deutschland', Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte, 3, 166-176 (1998, together with anke Hassel).

  • Mitbestimmung in Deutschland. Tradition und Effizienz , Frankfurt und New York: Campus Verlag (1999, edited book together with Wolfgang Streeck).

  • Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Mitbestimmung , Frankfurt und New York: Campus Verlag (1999, edited book together with Bernd Frick and Wolfgang Streeck).

  • The German Model of Co-determination and Cooperative Governance . Report from the Commission on Codetermination, edited by Bertelsmann Foundation and Hans-Böckler-Foundation. (1998; academic secretary of the Commission)

  • 'Codetermination - from a Model for the System to a Tool of Social Self-Organization', in Hoffmann, Reiner, et al. (ed), The German model of industrial relations between adaption and erosion , Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 35-49 (1998).

  • Anwälte, Problemlöser, Modernisierer . Betriebsratsreportagen von Cornelia Girndt, Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung (1997, edited book together with Martin Spilker).

  • Konfigurationen gewerkschaftlichen Forschungstransfer , Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang (1996, thesis).

  • 'Autonomie und Steuerung. Funktion und Innovativität interessengebundener Verwendungsforschung am Beispiel der Kooperation zwischen Gewerkschaften und Wissenschaften', in Ayla Neusel, Ulrich Teichler und Helmut Winkler (ed), Hochschule. Staat, Politik . Christoph Oehler zum 65. Geburtstag, Frankfurt und New York: Campus, 139-160 (1996).

  • Problemstart: Politischer und sozialer Wandel in den neuen Bundesländern , Köln: Bund Verlag (1994, edited book together with Reiner Hoffmann, Gudrun Linne and Erika Mezger).

  • 'Handlungs- und Orientierungswissen für gewerkschaftliche Interessenvertretung', in FIAB (ed), Jahrbuch Arbeit, Bildung, Recklinghausen: Forschungsinsitut für Arbeiterbildung, 39-56 (1993, together with Reiner Hoffmann).

  • 'Potentalités et obstacles de la coopération entre les syndicats et les milieux scientifiques', in G.Valenduc (ed), La recherche scientifique et le monde du travail , Namur: 48-59 (1993).

  • Umweltschutz und gewerkschaftliche Interessenvertretung , Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Foundation (1993, edited book together with Susanne Obst and Eberhard Schmidt).

  • Vom Lehrling zum Akademiker. Neue Wege des Hochschulzugangs für berufserfahrene Erwachsene , Oldenburg: Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität (1990, edited book together with Wolf-Dieter Scholz and Andrä Wolter).

  • Hochschulen und Forschungstransfer. Bedingungen, Konfigurationen und Handlungsmuster , Kassel: University of Kassel (1986, together with Christoph Oehler).

  • Studienreform in den Ländern - Dokumentation und Vergleich von Studienreformverfahren , Bonn: Ministry for Education and Research(1984, together with Ayla Neusel).

  • Praxisbeispiele praxisorientierten Studiums , Bonn: Ministry for Education and Research (1981, together with Ayla Neusel and Ulrich Teichler).

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