E&M
2020/4
Contents
Dossier. Rethinking Globalization
State Intervention in the Economy? What Counts is Quality
A New Management of Global Markets
Why We Should Go Back to Reading Marx
Dossier. Who Represents What
All of the Doubts and Challenges within Confindustria
Business-Labor: Equal Status and Common Planning
Four Possible Destinies for Labor Unions
Visual Reaadings
Focus. The Fashion Industry and New Consumption
The World of Luxury is No Longer the Same (Which is Good)
Innovation & Operations Management
Sharing Economy
Digital Procurement
Insittutions and Society
A New Model of Co-Responsibility
In recent months, the company committees created to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to ensure business continuity have created a new model of co-responsibility between businesses and employees. This is a form of collaboration that labor unions could also adopt in the future, extending it to broader perimeters of bargaining.#A new level of participation of unions in the life of organizations can be possible by going beyond the logic of demands lacking a direct correlation with the creation of value, but rather aiming at projects able to generate income, productivity, quality of processes, adaptive organizational models, and the development of skills. In addition to tax incentives, the extended use of other tools could favor collaboration between businesses and unions. Among these are investments in employee training, incentives for forms of corporate welfare, the widespread use of technological tools, and the extension of smart working.