THE ROLE OF DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN THE INTEGRATION PROCESS OF SOCIAL PARTNERS IN THE ENTERPRISE

Recent decades have brought significant changes in the enterprise, involving, among others, the democratization of industrial relations. An important role in this process has been played by direct forms of participation, which reveal entrepreneurship and creativity of workers, and thus improve the economic results of enterprises. Their popularity is associated with the increasing standard of living of employees, and with ever higher levels of their education and skills. There are signs that the process of the development of this participation is of objective character, because it is the result of the so-called economic compulsion.