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worker director

Meaning of "worker director" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WORKER DIRECTOR

worker director


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORKER DIRECTOR

noun
adjective
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adverb
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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Worker director is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WORKER DIRECTOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Worker director

A worker director is a member of a company's board of directors that is elected by the workforce of an organisation. Employees have a right by law to appoint directors to companies in most European Union member states. In the United States, trade unions have negotiated collective agreements, typically linked to employee stock ownership plans, to appoint board members.

Definition of worker director in the English dictionary

The definition of worker director in the dictionary is a worker elected to the governing board of a business concern to represent the interests of the employees in decision making.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORKER DIRECTOR

workboat · workbook · workbox · workday · worked · worked up · workend · worker · worker ant · worker bee · worker participation · worker-priest · worker´s compensation · workerist · workerless · workers´ cooperative · Workers´ Educational Association · workfare · workfellow · workflow

WORDS THAT END LIKE WORKER DIRECTOR

actor · collector · connector · detective chief inspector · detector · director · executive director · hector · injector · inspector · lector · managing director · private sector · projector · protector · public sector · rector · reflector · sector · selector · vector

Synonyms and antonyms of worker director in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «worker director» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WORKER DIRECTOR

Find out the translation of worker director to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of worker director from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «worker director» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

职工董事
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

director trabajador
570 millions of speakers
en

English

worker director
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

कार्यकर्ता निदेशक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مدير عامل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

директор работник
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

diretor trabalhador
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

কর্মী পরিচালক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

directeur de travailleur
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pengarah pekerja
190 millions of speakers
de

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Arbeiter Direktor
180 millions of speakers
ja

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ワーカーディレクター
130 millions of speakers
ko

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작업자 감독
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Direktur buruh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giám đốc công nhân
80 millions of speakers
ta

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தொழிலாளி இயக்குனர்
75 millions of speakers
mr

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कामगार दिग्दर्शक
75 millions of speakers
tr

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Işçi müdürü
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

direttore lavoratore
65 millions of speakers
pl

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dyrektor pracownik
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

директор працівник
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

director lucrător
30 millions of speakers
el

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διευθυντής των εργαζομένων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

werker direkteur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

arbetare regissör
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ansattrepresentant
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORKER DIRECTOR»

Discover the use of worker director in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to worker director and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary ...
The explanation offered for the lack of worker director influence has been institutional constraints — being in a minority position and prohibited from communicating with their workforce constituents — and personal inadequacies, such as lack ...
Bruce E. Kaufman, Daphne Gottlieb Taras, 2000
2
Committees and Commissions in India: 1947 - 73 ; a Concept's ...
(Para 11.19) 18.132 The choice of the worker-director will be only from amongst the workmen belonging to the company. (Para 11.20) 18.133 The tenure of a worker-director would be for a period of three years. (Para 11.21) 18.134 Vacancies ...
Virendra Kumar, 1993
3
Current Issues in Business Ethics
representation from the interest group constituency point of view demands a militant posture by the worker director. However. such a posture by the worker director is likely to cause other members of the board to caucus in a manner likely to ...
Peter W. F. Davies, 1997
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: THE INDIAN CONTEXT
Worker-Director” comes under this category, being elected or nominated to the board in large enterprises, especially in the public sector. The Worker-Director is meant to take care of the interest of the employees without compromising the ...
R. SRINIVASAN, 2012
5
Personnel Management & Industrial Relations, 10E
The scheme envisages that the Worker Director should continue to be a workman on the Shop Floor, subject to normal rules of discipline of the undertaking concerned. He would, however, be entitled to fees and allowances as admissible to ...
R S Davar, 2009
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Labour welfare and industrial hygiene
The Worker Director may also feel the trappings of the new elevation. Many have refereed to this phenomenon as "role conflict" - the difficulty of playing a double role. On the other hand, the worker is supposed to continue as a worker and yet ...
7
Partnership at Work: The Quest for Radical Organizational Change
For example, the cap [on borrowing for investment] could have been raised so that we could have borrowed more money. Another worker director had similar concerns: 'The workers were not asked for their views. This should have been done.
Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resources William K Roche, William K Roche, John F. Geary, 2006
8
Human Resource Management
Besides, the concept of the worker-director enables the management to effectively involve the employees in matters like wage fixation, training determination, grievance handling and disciplinary action. The worker-directors are usually elected ...
Durai, Durai Pravin
9
The Politics of Steel: Western Europe and the Steel Industry ...
All main Board directors of the BSC are appointed by the Secretary of State, after consultations with the Chairman. Despite the high hopes expressed for the worker director scheme on its inception in 1968, it has not proved to be a success .
Yves Mény, Vincent Wright, Martin Rhodes, 1987
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Economic Democracy and Financial Participation: A ...
Turnout of workers in that industry eligible to vote in worker director elections, ran at 80 per cent.52 Worker directors themselves were equally positive. They found board meetings interesting and instructive, though none reported increased ...
Daryl D'Art, 2002
REFERENCE
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