Demokracja pracownicza w przedsiębiorstwie przemysłowym
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1988
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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Employees democracy in an industrial plant
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In actual legal and political conditions in Poland it has been assumed that in
decision-making processes in an enterprise in the first place participate, as representatives
of the employees' interests: a self-government of a crew, a Party
organization, a trade union. In economic praxis, it created complicated problems,
since it is very difficult to draw distinct lines separating the areas of activity of
those organizations.
The research indicates that despite quite large competences of a self-government,
its participation in management activities is not big (a very big influence
on decision-making: a general assembly of a crew and the employees' council —
8.9% of answers). The most important decisive body is a chief executive director
— 35.3°/o of answers. In effect, formal institutions which might have created conditions
to develop industrial democracy do not function according to the expectations
and consequently, an increase in the position and authority of an enterprise
director has been noted in 1988 in comparison with previous years.
As a result of those changes, cooperation between a director, a Party organization
and a trade union does not develop adequately. The cooperation is the best
between a director and a Party organization — 16.6% of positive indications.
Among workers a view prevails that the organizations which are to be the
workers' representations in decision-making processes do not meet such expectations.
It was only o 9% of respondents who indicated that a party organization
represents the workers' interests. 12.9% of respondents were of the same opinion
with respect to a self-government of a crew and the employees' council. At the
same time workers declare little interest in taking posts in self-government organs;
in effect, not always the best people are candidates for seats in the employees'
council. The workers, however, want to have a much greater influence than
they have now on decisions concerning their workplaces (26.9%) as well as on their
participating in taking decisions concerning the collective work (30.6%).
It seems apparent that the increase in employees' democracy depends on organizational
and legal conditions and, in the first place, requires the change of
attitudes among workers and the managing staff. It is also necessary to increase
the self-dependence of enterprises in financial matters and to reduce the degree
of their subordination to the economic center. Moreover, there arises the need to
establish self-government structures on a supra-enterprise level, eg. the Self-Government
Chamber in the Sejm (Parliament).
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 50, 1988, z. 4, s. 347-370
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0035-9629