German codetermination gives employee participation defined institutional rights. It distinguishes works councils from supervisory-board representation and separates information, consultation, consent, and co-decision. Mapping these rights to a specific issue helps make communication consequential without assuming that formal participation guarantees effective voice or sound decisions.
- FamilyTool
- CategoryGovernance Institutions & Procedures
- DomainOrganization & Structure
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Governance Institutions & Procedures
Organizes authority, representation, participation, deliberation, collective decision or institutional resolution of conflict. Its contribution concerns who may act, speak, decide or challenge, and under what arrangements.