New Social Cooperation Model in Service Oriented Economy: the Case of Employee Financial Participation in the Baltic States

• Autorzy: Remigijus Civinskas , Jaroslav Dvorak
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The article discusses the issues of employee financial participation in Baltic states which differs and depends on political, legal and economic preconditions. The aim of the research is to analyse employee financial participation as an instrument for collaboration in companies and a new social cooperation model in the Baltic states. The qualitative research was conducted by telephone and e-mail in 2016. The interviews were carried out with the experts (academics, civil servants, lawyers and human resource consultants working in a relevant field) as well some trade union and company representatives. In general, the new policy for supporting employee financial participation has been renewed in Latvia and Lithuania. It started recently with the revision of the legislative framework that was initially established during the privatisation period. The revision of the Law of Companies was driven by the business interest (to have a new effective human resource management tool or to transfer employee share plans from parent companies in Western countries to subsidiaries in the Baltic states) to introduce (or revise, in the case of Lithuania) new employee share ownership (ESO) plans. The research has also proven that there are common similarities in the use of employee financial participation plans despite the existing differences which are based on national features, such as tax and legal regimes, historical development patterns, or economic and structural factors. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Services economy; Financial participation; Human Resources Management (HRM); Workers' participation in companies' profits; Personnel participation in management; Qualitative research

PL

Gospodarka usług; Partycypacja finansowa; Zarządzanie zasobami ludzkimi; Udział pracowników w zyskach przedsiębiorstwa; Partycypacja pracowników w zarządzaniu; Badanie jakościowe

• Czasopismo: Engineering Management in Production and Services
• Rocznik: 2017
• Numer: nr 3
• Strony: 37--50

Twórcy

autor

Remigijus Civinskas

• Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

autor

Jaroslav Dvorak

• Klaipeda University, Lithuania

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DOI

10.1515/emj-2017-0024