scholarly journals Institutions or resources and capabilities? Explaining engagement in European sectoral social dialogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2110160
Author(s):  
Thomas Prosser ◽  
Barbara Bechter ◽  
Manuela Galetto ◽  
Sabrina Weber ◽  
Bengt Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Partner Preferences ◽  
Institutional Influences ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Insight Into

In this article the authors analyse social partner engagement in European sectoral social dialogue, testing two prominent theories to disentangle sector and country dynamics: institutional and resources and capabilities theories. While institutional theory accounted for certain social partner preferences, resources and capability theory proved stronger in predicting participation and provided insight into regulatory preferences. The authors conclude that resources and capability theory better explains their case, associating it with weaknesses of transnational governance. Specifically, limited incentives for participation mean that social partners with fewer resources forego participation, entailing pre-eminence of social partners with greater resources and hindering outcomes reflecting national institutional influences.

scholarly journals Opening the black box: Actors and interactions shaping European sectoral social dialogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 095968012110000
Author(s):  
Barbara Bechter ◽  
Sabrina Weber ◽  
Manuela Galetto ◽  
Bengt Larsson ◽  
Thomas Prosser
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Organizational Resources ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Work Programme

This article highlights the importance of organizational resources and individual capabilities for interactions and relationships among social partners in European sectoral social dialogue committees (SSDCs). We use an actor-centred approach to investigate work programme setting in the hospital and metalworking SSDCs. Our research reveals differences in how European social partner organizations coordinate and integrate members in SSDCs. In hospital, European Union (EU)-social partners build bridges that span otherwise separate actors or groups. The findings suggest that the absence of bridging efforts can lead to the dominance of a few actors. In metalworking, small cohesive groups are more effective in forming close networks and determining work programmes. While work programmes in hospital represent issues which are on national agendas, in metalworking, they focus mainly on EU policy areas.

scholarly journals EUROPEJSKI AUTONOMICZNY DIALOG SPOŁECZNY – SZANSE I ZAGROŻENIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Barbara Surdykowska
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Crystalline Silica ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Member States ◽  
New Members ◽  
Framework Agreement ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Social Partners

European Autonomous Social Dialogue – Chances and ThreatsSummaryThe article is about development of European social dialogue under 138 and 139 of EC Treaty. One can see clearly, that European social partners (ETUC, BusinessEurope, UEAPME, CEEP) want to achieve more independency from European Commission. This aim at development independency manifest oneself in sign of autonomous agreements which shall be implemented by national social partners in accordance with the procedures and practices specific to management and the labour in member states. So far was sung 3 cross sector autonomous agreements –Framework Agreement on Telework, Framework Agreement on the WorkRelated Stress and Framework Agreement on Harassment and Violence at Work. The article is also about first multi sector autonomous agreement on Workers’ Health Protection Through the Good Handling and Use of Crystalline Silica and Products Containing it.In Poland implementation of autonomous agreements can be seen as misgiving. In Poland intensification of social dialogue is low. Number of sectoral employer organizations is unsatisfactory. Implementation of autonomous agreements animates bilateral dialogue among employer organizations and trade unions in Poland. However if one thinks about weakness of social partner in new members states can see that it can bring to different level of protection between workers from old and new members states.

Social Dialogue Under Globalization in Nigeria: Does Democracy Add Value?

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ifeanyi P. Onyeonoru ◽  
Kehinde Kester
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
International Labour Organisation ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Modest Contribution ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Oil Sector ◽  
The Government

Social dialogue as an aspect of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is aimed at promoting industrial democracy by encouraging consensus building among social partners in the work place. The significance lies, among others, in minimising conflicts to enable harmonious industrial relations. This study utilized specific case illustrations to examine the inclination of the Nigerian government towards social dialogue in government-labour relations, with particular reference to the Obasanjo era 1999-2007— a period associated with the globalization of democracy. The cases included the minimum wage award 2000, University Autonomy Bill, the price deregulation of the downstream oil sector and the Trade Union Amendment Bill 2004. It was found that the government exhibited a penchant for authoritarianism in spite of the globalization of democracy. This was evident in the incapacity of the Obasanjo government to engage the social partners in social dialogue as indicated by the cases reviewed. The study, however, highlighted the modest contribution to social dialogue made by the wider democratic structure. It was concluded that the government had limited capacity for consensus building, accommodation of opposition and negotiated outcomes in government-labour relations

Norms, Practices, and Rules of Virtual Community of Online Gamers

2012 ◽  
pp. 378-390
Author(s):  
Shafiz Affendi Mohd Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Institutional Influences

In this chapter, the author addresses a key question rooted in an institutional perspective: What norms, practices, and rules are evident in online gaming that facilitates the development of a virtual community of online gamers? Available studies have so far examined the institutional influences on organizations but not on virtual community. Thus, there is a compelling need to bridge fields such as IS and sociology in order to understand virtual communities of online gamers. The chapter comprises five sections: (1) examination of online gamers as an example of a virtual community; (2) brief description of institutional theory to illustrate the theoretical lens applied; (3) presentation of the methodology of the study; (4) discussion of the findings based on four different aspects: social roles and social positions, interaction rules, social control systems, and leadership; and finally (5) presentation of some implications and suggestion of future directions for study of the rapidly-growing phenomenon of online gaming.

scholarly journals Females prefer extra-pair males that are older and better hunters

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hromada ◽  
Marcin Antczak ◽  
Piotr Tryjanowski
Keyword(s):  
Mate Selection ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Quality Traits ◽  
Nuptial Gifts ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Grey Shrike ◽  
Older Males

AbstractAge of male is an important cue in mate selection, including extra-pair copulations; different phenotypic and behavioural traits are known to be age related. Paternity studies show that older males predominate as fathers of extra-pair young. It remains unclear if females actively choose older males because they possess high quality traits or because older males are more successful in coercing fertile females. We experimentally provided mounted males of different age (yearling vs. adult) of great grey shrike Lanius excubitor with nuptial gifts of different quality (vole vs. cricket) and observed reactions of females and their social partners. Females strongly preferred older males with energy-rich nuptial gifts. The reactions of females’ social partner to the extra-pair male did not differ significantly amongst experimental groups. However, males responded to the reaction of their mates and male aggressive behaviour increased when their mate showed an interest in an intruder.

Social Dialogue as a Form of Participation of Employees in Decision-Making and Management of the Companies with Emphasis on Social Dialogue in the Republic of Macedonia

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Ljupcho Petkukjeski ◽  
Marjan Bojadziev ◽  
Marko Andonov ◽  
Zoran Mihajloski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Practical Realization ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
The Republic

Social dialogue is one of the forms of participation of employees in matters referring to the field of labor or on matters of mutual interest for economic and social policy. Employees in the process of the social dialogue are represented through their union. Social dialogue is a form of communication involving social partners (unions and employers/ employer bodies) intended to affect the contracts and the development of labor issues. This context includes issues relating to participation in various types of negotiations, consultations, exchange of information between representatives of governments, employers and employees on issues of common interest and related to the economic and social policy. Social dialogue is also one of the forms through which employees can participate in decision-making, information and operations of the companies. The main aim of this paper is to clarify the social dialogue as one of the forms of participation of employees in decision making and managing with the companies, and to provide the legal basis for the practical realization.

Social dialogue in candidate countries: what for?

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Lado ◽  
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Dialogue Process ◽  
Eu Candidate Countries ◽  
The Eu

In their negotiations for accession to the EU, candidate countries have made important social policy commitments. These include the promotion of social dialogue up to EU standards and the application of the principles and values that prevail in this area. Accordingly, governments of candidate countries are trying to promote appropriate conditions for such social dialogue to take place, while social partners are reinforcing their structures to play their full role in the social dialogue process. Nevertheless, there has been little debate about the real objectives of social dialogue in the candidate countries. What is social dialogue for, what has it achieved so far, and why is it so important to develop it further? Who are expected to be the ultimate beneficiaries of social dialogue mechanisms and practices? What implications might current features of social dialogue in candidate countries have in the enlarged European Union? This article provides a first tentative assessment of the coverage of social dialogue - and thus of the effectiveness of social dialogue mechanisms - in the candidate countries.

Corporate social responsibility within the European sectoral social dialogue

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malene Nordestgaard ◽  
Judith Kirton-Darling
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
The Core ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Specific Activities ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Core Issues

This article considers how European sectoral social partners have tackled and promoted the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and to what extent their common actions have given CSR a tangible and practical form. After reviewing sectoral social dialogue and trade unions’ attitudes to CSR, the authors report on research into the activities of sectoral social dialogue committees. The research shows that many of the sectoral social dialogue committees, whether they consider themselves to be active or not on CSR, have been grappling with the core issues raised by the concept over a number of years. The development of the European institutional debate on CSR has clearly led to the ‘redefinition’ of activities carried out in the framework of the sectoral social dialogue, in some cases offering new impetus to common actions and broadening the scope of debate, while in other cases offering ‘old wine in new bottles'. This article further analyses the specific activities of the sectoral social dialogue committees in the sugar sector.

scholarly journals Why inclusive fitness can make it adaptive to produce less fit extra-pair offspring

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1801) ◽  
pp. 20142716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jussi Lehtonen ◽  
Hanna Kokko
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Fitness ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Reproductive Season ◽  
Breeding Systems ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Social Monogamy ◽  
Monogamous Species ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Socially Monogamous ◽  
Fitness Benefits

Social monogamy predominates in avian breeding systems, but most socially monogamous species engage in promiscuous extra-pair copulations (EPCs). The reasons behind this remain debated, and recent empirical work has uncovered patterns that do not seem to fit existing hypotheses. In particular, some results seem to contradict the inbreeding avoidance hypothesis: females can prefer extra-pair partners that are more closely related to them than their social partners, and extra-pair young can have lower fitness than within-pair young. Motivated by these studies, we show that such results can become explicable when an asymmetry in inbreeding tolerance between monogamy and polygamy is extended to species that combine both strategies within a single reproductive season. Under fairly general conditions, it can be adaptive for a female to choose an unrelated social partner, but inbreed with an extra-pair partner. Inbreeding depression is compensated for by inclusive fitness benefits, which are only fully realized in EPCs. We also show that if a female has already formed a suboptimal social bond, there are scenarios where it is beneficial to engage in EPCs with less related males, and others where EPCs with more related males increase her inclusive fitness. This has implications for detecting general relatedness or fitness trends when averaged over several species.

Participation through the Lisbon strategy: comparing the European Employment Strategy and pensions OMC

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Natali ◽  
Caroline de la Porte
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Limited Participation ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Open Method Of Coordination ◽  
Amsterdam Treaty ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Eu

The present article aims to shed light on the concrete implementation of the Lisbon strategy with regard to its governance framework and to participation (of social partners) in particular. The focus is on the European Employment Strategy (EES) (defined in the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997 and then integrated into the broader Lisbon strategy that emerged in 2000) and the open method of coordination on pensions (the process of soft coordination of pension reforms agreed at the Stockholm Council of 2001). While the EU discourse has a strong emphasis on social partnership, evidence from the two cases in this article shows limited participation. While social partner access varies considerably between coordination processes, it is evident that expectations concerning increased participation have not been fulfilled in the Lisbon strategy.

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