Venue: TRYP Lisboa Oriente Hotel Av. D. João II, Parque das Nações, 1990-083, Lisbon, Portugal

Thursday 18 September 2014

11:30 - Arrival and registration
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:15 Introduction and welcoming address (ETUI)
13:15 - 15:00 Session 1: Existing research on the influence of employee participation on managerial decisions and organisational outcomes

• Paul Marginson: “What more do we know about the impact of EWCs on management decision-making?”
• Saraï Sapulete
• Annette  van den Berg

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:50 Session 2: Case study evidence on various forms of impact of employee participation: part 1

• Peter Kerckhofs
• Eckhardt Voss
• Deborah Hahn and Marco Hauptmeier
• Mark Hall ‘'Promoting effective consultation? The implementation  of Directive 2002/14/EC in the UK'

19:00 Assembly for common outing/dinner @ restaurant in Lisbon

Friday 15 September 2014

08:30 – 10:15 Session

3: Case study evidence on various forms of impact of employee participation: part 2

• Jonathan Lavelle
• Ludger Pries
• Luitpold Rampeltshammer and Markus Hertwig (TBC)

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:15  Session 4: Identities and interests in EWCs and their impact on managerial strategies

Thomas Fetzer
Herman Knudsen (TBC)
Matthias Klemm: “Different cultures, common interests? Communication and interaction in EWCs

12:15 – 13:15 Buffet lunch
13:15-15:00 Session 5: Transnational Collective Bargaining as an influence tool for EWCs

• Udo Rehfeldt
• Volker Telljohann
• Michael Whittall

15:30 – 16:00 Summary session: conclusions & prospects for future research

The seminar language is English. peeches and presentations will NOT be translated simultaneously.