Take Part: in viaggio per l'Europa per scambiare e creare un nuovo modello formativo per favorirela partecipazione e il welfare aziendale

Globalization is proceeding in a world characterized by cooperative and antagonistic relationsbetween states and regional organizations of states which, despite growing pressure to comply withthe norms of global governance continue to compete for resources.Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the growth of transnational corporatepower against the backdrop of the decline of the capitalist system.The crisis scenario overwhelming post-modern society and elements of economic critics, mainlyderives from two prevalent factors, such as the concentration of wealth in the hands of an everdecreasing number of people and the reduction in the number of companies, flanked by the growingpresence of oligopolies, together with an employment and wage crisis and an inadequacy of theWestern countries employment policies in addressing such a renewed framework. These aspectsreiterate the important issues of workers’ participation in the management and shares of thecompany for the development of welfare within the companies themselves.In such a context, characterized by the limited competences of the European Union in terms ofemployment and social policies, welfare is a matter of national governments competence. Therefore,it is important to verify the legal framework and legislative references under the Member States of theEuropean Union to develop a comparative study, which highlights good practices promoted, both atinstitutional level and by the employers of companies based in the EU.An average amount of companies are implementing welfare policies, and consider this as a bestpractice to share. Such undertaking in favor of employees’ participation, has resulted in increasedproductivity of the companies. However, the partner organizations have highlighted a lack ofknowledge of welfare policies, as well as few skills to apply such practices. They want to find aremedy to this trend and there are problems to be addressed, in order to foster integrated businessdevelopment and to enhance their ability to respond to the evolvement of society.OBJECTIVESThe project aims to support business development and employment growth through trainingdesigned for 24 employers, staff involved in the human resources management and responsible forcorporate welfare and/or social corporate responsibility, and leveled on competence building, toensure companies greater productivity together with the desire to enhance workers well-being.To reach this purpose, the project proposes to:• Carry out an activity of compilation of norms and procedures under the European institutions andbusiness actors on the two identified themes, examining how policies that encourage workersparticipation and welfare development can help companies to be competitive;• Create and test an educational program, aimed at training employers, staff working in the humanresources management and supervisors for corporate welfare, enabling them to acquire skills andimplement good practices in their own context;• Concretely train participants through a process that involves the combination of a theoretical andpractical dimension and serve as multiplying factor of the outcomes obtained in the contexts of origin;• Produce and publish guidelines that give normative references and contain an integrated collectionof good practices aimed at encouraging greater participation of the employees and the improvementof company welfare.PHASES OF THE PROJECTThe project will be developed through 8 main steps:1) Kick-off meeting: Intends to start the project and identify the timeline. During the meeting aprocess for the establishment of a Steering Committee;2) Collection of good practices: compile a comparative analysis of the reference models, both from alegislative and the experiential point of view. This will be particularly carried through research andstudy, involving the territories where organizations involved operate.3) Development of a training program based on the good practices collected;4) Implementation of a training course: employers, staff managing human resources and corporatewelfare manager. The training will include practical exchanges with European realities present inBrussels that will illustrate their practices;5) Joint training event activities: to allow participants to directly observe the work done by the otherpartners;6) Pilot activities: carried out by the participants of the training course in their local realities. Thisphase it is implemented to test actual learning during the duration of the training and to feedback onthe delivery of the local pilot activities;7) Finalization and publication of the guidelines on the application of welfare policies, that will beused to disseminate knowledge and practices among other stakeholders;8) Final event: Results presentation, Conclusions and follow up of the project.