Abstract
Employee involvement and participation is part of Labor Relations and Human Resource Management. This study is to identify how and to what extent employee involvement and employee participation mechanisms are used in the Greek subsidiaries of multinational companies in the pharmaceutical industry. The issues examined in this study are the design of employee involvement and participation practices, the similarities and differences of employee participation practices in the group of companies internationally, corporate employee communication and consultation mechanisms, corporate policy towards trade unions and the EWC nature and agreements. The research method is qualitative with semi-structured interviews conducted with management executives, human resource management executives and the selected organizations participating in the study are active in the pharmaceutical industry and fall within the scope of Directive 2009/38/EC/16.5.2009 on the right of employees to information and consultation at Community-scale companies and groups of companies. The findings indicate that most of the participant companies when designing employee involvement and participation practices, consider a formal model of best practices that has been codified for all multinational companies. Regarding the global company’s policy on consultation and employee involvement most of the participant companies state that they provide a little more than the institutional framework requires. Nevertheless, management receives information about the activity and meetings of the EWC systematically at the time of EWC meetings. Increasing employee participation requires both management attention and initiatives on the part of employees.
Highlights
IntroductionThere are many definitions that refer to multinational organizations which characterize them as global, international, and transnational
This study identifies how and to what extent employee involvement and employee participation mechanisms are used in the Greek subsidiaries of multinational companies in the pharmaceutical industry
As evidenced by the objectives of the research, what is sought essentially requires an in-depth understanding of the implementation of employee participation in subsidiaries of multinational companies in Greece that are active in the pharmaceutical sector and have a European Works Council
Summary
There are many definitions that refer to multinational organizations which characterize them as global, international, and transnational. A multinational company is a company that operates in one country (the parent country) and produces products or services in one or more foreign countries (host countries) (Mondy and Noe 2005). A company that employs human resources in more than one country to produce its products and/or for the offer of its services is multinational (Kelly 2001). According to Dau (2013), multinationality refers to the degree to which an enterprise has international operations and is understood (1) in terms of location characteristics and knowledge of host market dynamics, (2) in terms of knowledge links that connect the network of international subsidiaries and the parent company in the geographical area and (3) in terms of organizational changes and strategic decisions taken by companies to develop their network of international subsidiaries
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