Employee Participation in Governance
A Legal and Ethical Analysis

Why are employee ownership and participation vital for the well-being of individuals, corporations and the economy?

Michael Lower (Author)

9780521862844, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 May 2010

234 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.51 kg

The rights of the employee and the themes of employee ownership and participation have been central, recurring themes as the body of Catholic social thought has developed. There is now a unified corpus of official Catholic teaching that focuses the resources of moral theology and natural law theory on the important social issues of the day such as this. The description and explanation of the essential elements of Catholic social thought and its relationship to these themes helps the reader think about the place of the corporation in the economy and whether British and European corporate governance and labour law do what they should to put the employee at the centre of corporate governance.

1. Introduction
2. Catholic social thought: nature, sources and core principles and values
3. CST and work
4. CST, private property and markets
5. The corporation
6. The firm and society
7. Employee participation in corporate governance: an ethical analysis
8. Corporate governance in the United Kingdom
9. Labour law and employee participation
10. Employee participation and EU corporate governance
11. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Employment & labour law [LNH], Company law [LNCD], Corporate governance [KJR], Religion: general [HRA]