The World of Work and Collective Bargaining Policy
With the working world constantly changing, those active in the labour market face ever new challenges that can only be successfully overcome by concerted action. How companies and their workforces shape their local working environment and working conditions is in many places determined by the complex institutional structures of collective labour relations. These are in turn the result of negotiations between the employers' associations and trade unions at the sectoral and regional level and by management and co-determination bodies at the level of the establishment.
German Wage Policy between Inflation and Stagnation:
Are Conflicts with the Aims of Monetary Policy Looming?
Hagen Lesch
After the economic and financial crisis of 2008/9, the German labour market soon began to recover, creating scope for a comparatively expansive wage policy.
Leadership in transformation:
Megatrends and management as a driver of change
Lena Suling / Julia Wildner
Leadership dynamics in companies are subject to constant change in order to meet the challenges of their time. Today, the greatest influences result from developments such as demographic change, globalization, individualization, structural change and technologization in the economy.
In 2023, half of the companies in Germany reported increasing problems in filling vacancies for management positions because employees are not aiming for a career. Larger companies are less affected than small companies.
The decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany is often attributed to the reluctance of companies to join an employers' association which negotiates collective agreements.
Graduates in Germany are distributed very unevenly across the country. Taking the population aged between 35 and 44, who have generally already completed their higher education, in 2019 the highest proportions of university graduates were to be found in Berlin and the Munich regional planning area.
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