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Analyse the pressures that have confronted the 'German model' of industrial relations in the past 20 years. Has the model been weakened?
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Analyse the pressures that have confronted the 'German model' of industrial relations in the past 20 years. Has the model been weakened?. The German industrial relations system has been called the "social partnership model" because of the cooperative style and the strong consensus orientation. However during the 1980s and 1990s the centrally co- coordinated neo-corporatist German model of IR is in a state of Flux. The German model of IR has become well known for the strength of its inclusive unions, the extensive coverage of its sectoral collective bargaining system, and the dual structure of broad employee rights exercised through work's councils and supervisory boards. The system of industry wide bargaining has come under increasing pressure since 1990, in part because of the challenges posed by German unification. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, it was frequently regarded as a model case for upmarket restructuring and consensual, long term high trust relationships...
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