A European study to identify and share the best practices of the industrial relations of Craft enterprises sectors: representation beyond administration, the possible leadership of SME
The project aimed to improve expertise in industrial relations and to promote the exchange of information among parties actively involved in industrial relations. In particular, the project dealt with industrial relations of Craft enterprises sector and their employees. In particular, the project aimed to realize a study at two different levels. Top-down: to understand the impact of Craft enterprises in the economy. Bottom-up: to identify the best practices of leadership in the representation of craftsmen. Then, an international conference was organized in Alessandria to present the results of the project.
The project had been elaborated according to the experience of all the partners involved. The partnership was heterogeneous involving organisations linked to industrial relations as: Research centres and institutes, Non-profit making organisations and Craft Unions in order to represent all the target groups and stakeholders and coming from 6 countries: Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary, Greece.
According to the Call for proposal, the project improved expertise in industrial relations and promoted the exchange of information among parties actively involved in industrial relations. In particular, the project dealt with industrial relations of Craft.
INWORK project realized a study at two different levels: 1. Top-down: to understand the impact of Craft enterprises in the economy. Statistics about craft enterprises report data only about the employers and not about their employees. Therefore, the project had an economic approach to reconcile the statistics on Craft enterprises work over the total work (7-35%) with the statistics on employment in SME over the total employment (50 -80 %). 2. Bottom-up: to identify the best practices of leadership in the representation of Craft enterprises work to investigate if the economic reality of employers and employees are getting closer to each other than they are to the rest of the economic actors at a representation level.
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