Already by the mid-1990s the Slovenian industrial relations system contained all key features of the neo-corporatist regimes emerging after the second World War in the European systems of democratic capitalism. In Slovenia, this system started to change in the middle of the last decade. The initiator of this change was Slovenia's entry to the eurozone. Since then, Slovenian neo-corporatism has been subject to systematic deregulation. Despite this, the analysis suggests the Slovenian industrial relations system still contains coordinating mechanisms that distinguish it from other 'post-communist', and, generally speaking, liberal market economies.
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Ever since the world crisis hit Slovenia, the reconfiguration of the industrial relations system has principally been exogenously determined. Public debt and the related dependence on supranational institutions and financial (bond) markets have been strongly correlated with the unilateral imposition of these institutions' demands and pressures. Despite mounting pressures, the formal industrial relations structure has not undergone any major changes, although within this structure there are clear signs of major changes in both power relations and in the logic and quality of the industrial relations system.
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Even before the end of the one-party system, both Hungary and Slovenia experienced systematic internal market reforms. Following the abrupt political transition there has been a complete shift to a market economy. In Hungary, this had clear features of a neoliberal transformation; but in Slovenia an alternative path was taken, involving neo-corporatism with its Keynesian welfare correlates. Yet, during the last decade, a new wave of radical neoliberal change has occurred in the two countries. In this article, I compare the transformations in both countries in order to identify the conditions underlying the neoliberal turn in each.
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Slovenian neo-corporatism in the 1990s enabled the country’s relatively fast and smooth inclusion in the European monetary system. However, its former rise and recent tendency towards disorganisation clearly overlap with the qualitatively different phases of Europeanisation. This overlap supports the thesis there has been a decline in corporatist pacts in the post-EMU period, suggesting the decline is caused by the more or less successful internalisation of EMU demands and pressures during the accommodation process. While it is true the decline of corporatism in Slovenia was connected with EMU pressures, a significant source of its disorganisation lay in its specific micro foundations.
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The article explores the issue of care work, with a focus on parental care work and the balancing of paid work and family obligations. We apply Sen’s capability approach to evaluate Slovenian parents’ capabilities to reconcile paid work and the family in the context of the transition to a market economy. The results show the increased precariousness of employment and intensification of work are creating gaps between the legal and normative possibilities for successful reconciliation strategies and the actual use of such arrangements in Slovenia. The existing social policies and acceptance of gender equality in the paid-work sphere enhance capabilities for the reconciliation of paid work and parenthood, whereas the intensification of working lives, the dominance of paid work over other areas of life, and the acceptance of gender inequalities in fulfilling parental and household responsibilities limit parents’ capabilities to achieve WLB.
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This paper discusses gender differences in working conditions and related psychological and health risks in Slovenia. Methods: The analysis is based on the 5th European Working Conditions Survey and data from a special Module on working conditions and psychological and health risks in the working environment in Slovenia obtained in 2010. Results: Gender differences exist in the reported work conditions and work satisfaction of the employed population, and the reported physical and mental health problems in Slovenia. Analysis of the correlation between health-related problems under different work conditions also shows gender differences. Conclusion: Women are more overburdened by paid and unpaid work, they report less autonomy in the workplace, are less satisfied with their working conditions and report more physical and mental problems associated with work.
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The HRM literature provides various typologies of HR managers’ roles in organisations. The paper aims to examine how the roles and required competencies of HR managers in Slovenian multinational companies change when these companies enter the international arena. The authors used a triangulation approach and analysed the results by multivariate methods and content analysis. The authors found that the complexity of HR managers’ roles, and expectations of their competencies, grows as companies increase their internationalisation. This study helps review and evaluate the quite limited research on HR managers’ roles and competencies in MNCs. It focuses on MNCs and outward internationalisation in the Central and Eastern European region. It is the first study to establish a set of roles and competencies for HR managers in Slovenian MNCs.
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The purpose of this paper is to distinguish the two foci of organisational identification and to explore the relations among employees’ groups and corporate identification, perceived external prestige, and organisational commitment.
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The paper proposes a way to link a dialectical systems perspective with communications that includes the sensemaking and dialogic collective approaches, which help to build systems of organised activities with the aim of finding solutions to complex problems from a holistic perspective. The theoretical perspectives are illustrated with a case study of JYSK, a multinational company based in Denmark, which demonstrates how the company built its actual management of CSR on its willingness to learn from its own actions and from the actions of others.
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The article reflects on democratisation processes in Slovenia, arguing the new social movements were a key player in initiating and directing democratic transformation, but later came to be gradually marginalised with the consolidation of the “new” or “bourgeois” civil society. Further, a new chronotope of analysis shows that the role of social movements was a necessary but not a sufficient condition for political, economic and social changes since during the second phase of democratisation a certain political detachment is already underway. The key point of contestation and discordance is identified in their completely opposite understandings of democracy and the process of democratisation itself.
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