This chapter of Cooperative states background, management of Mondragon cooperatives. Mondragon cooperatives manage and developed joint cooperatives corporations from the heart of the Basque area in Spain to other countries. The Mondragon cooperative corporations have high quality skilled worker and job opportunity creation followed the organization for union members in locally and globally.
Background of Mondragon cooperatives began the reason to restore and develop local people and company activities on the Basque region in Spain found by catholic priest José María Arizmendiarrieta after Spain civil war. His students and he thought that cooperative solve stagnate in the local economy to step up social revolution in Basque region. Mondragon cooperatives was established by his students and him that he was activity to found training and learning school for jobless and young people in local economy. They have developed cooperative corporations to merge bankruptcy of neighboring companies and to found suited needs of social problems in local economy in the head of Basque area in Spain. When the market in Spain could join from company in other countries, Mondragon cooperative decided to adapt a flow of the time between locally and globally. Mondragon corporations come to develop over the world that extends various enterprises of distribution, industry, finance, and training or education in each country.
Management of Mondragon cooperative manage a partnership management of enterprises department in each cooperatives followed a principle by meetings. The meeting of Mondragon cooperative is making decision of delegate by a cooperative of union members to execute basic standard, function, and policy. The principle is management stru...
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...ed what is doing, to support reconstruction of economy and society, to construct a society of Basque, university of cooperative movement to work democratic management in development, peace, and justice, and education to have enough human and financial resource for suited education of each member.
The results of Mondragon cooperation bring about an effect with developing locally and globally scale as cooperative organization of union members. The effect of management leads job opportunity and sales chart in democratic approach of the principle for organization and union members by union members of representatives in a process of meeting to have sharing risk and to give a common and share an advantage between organization and union members. Mondragon cooperation makes contribution of effect to increase job opportunity, to raise sales chart in locally and globally.
The Stone Mountain Coal Company controlled the processes involving the production, circulation, and distribution of products and services in the town of Matewan. Most of the people in the town were employees of the company and others were in debt to the company through mortgages and loans. Everyone depended on the company for daily necessities such as food and clothing because the company owned the stores in Matewan and because all employees of Matewan were paid in company script which only allowed them to buy in the company stores. Furthermore, their contract said that to buy from any other store would mean immediate discharge from employment. The Stone Mountain Coal company was the only major employer in town. To become self-employed, citizens of Matewan would have needed initial endowments of resources, products and land that were only available at the company's prerogative.
Cortiços were living quarters for the poor. They were set up as a small community themselves and a...
in 2012 6024 cooperatives were created in the country, when in 2011 they had established 1777, representing an increase of 239% in just 12 months. (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1561788-crecen-sin-control-las-cooperativas-sociales-y-abundan-las-quejas)+
Fr Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta, a Catholic Priest, founded the Mondragon Corporation, a cooperative in the Basque region of Spain in 1956. The region suffered greatly during the Spanish Civil War (Thomson, 2010) and Fr Jose felt it his calling to help his regions people recover, allowing them to continue to support themselves. Fr Jose’s motive was to promote individuals’ moral character as well as social justice through the creation of a new kind of work place, one that encouraged hard work, cooperation, shared rewards, and individual responsibility. At the same time, he sought to generate employment and income in a region that had been impoverished by war, dictatorship and neglect (Lafuente, 2012). The initial cooperative was successful and from that much other cooperative business emerged in industries including banking, manufacturing, distribution and education. The Mondragon Corporation multiplied until it became the biggest employer in the region (Witzel, 2003). The Mondragon Corporation now consists of over 82,000 people in an integrated group of so...
(22) GEO, #12, Fall 1994. Many other countries have deep cooperative traditions, including the UK, France, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, India, Chile, and Argentina.
This means that a group of workers can unite to gain more power and leverage in bargaining. The bargaining process may include many aspects but usually consists of wages, benefits, terms and conditions of employment. The notion of union came about in the 1700's. In the beginning, as it is today, workers united to "defend the autonomy and dignity of the craftsman against the growing power of the company" (Montgomery). These early unions had many names including societies, social societies and guilds.
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Throughout American history, labor unions have served to facilitate mediation between workers and employers. Workers seek to negotiate with employers for more control over their labor and its fruits. “A labor union can best be defined as an organization that exists for the purpose of representing its members to their employers regarding wages and terms and conditions of employment” (Hunter). Labor unions’ principal objectives are to increase wages, shorten work days, achieve greater benefits, and improve working conditions. Despite these goals, the early years of union formation were characterized by difficulties (Hunter).
The members have been generating client bases in their own related businesses since 1999, previously, the members enjoyed mild success in their own businesses, and have been limited only by capital and available time.
Easy Company from its inception in July of 1942 to its disbandment at the end of World War II was an elite paratrooper force made up of “voluntary citizen soldiers” meaning they were in Easy Company of their own accord and for the most part where all previously not in any form of military. (Ambrose p. 16-17) "Easy company included three rifle platoons and a headquarters section. Each platoon contained three twelve-man rifle squads and a six-man mortar team squad.” Easy also had one machine gun attached to each of its rifle squads, and a 60mm mortar in each mortar team. The training they would endure was much more rigorous, as the conditions would be more perilous, “of the 500 officers who had volunteered, only 148 successfully completed the course. The enlisted men had it equally tough, with only 1,800 men being selected out of 5,300 volunteers” (Ambrose, 18) this left them feeling that themselves and the man watching their back would be much more prepared for battle than your average draftee.
The transformation from early organisations such as workshops, guilds, cooperatives and the ‘putting out system’ to the rise of the factory system brings us closer to today’s organisation. In the early organisations in workshops there was scope for embezzlement, a poor allocation of resources and traditional hierarchies were very common. The putting-out system was a simple, decentralized method of producing manufactured goods and it had been in use for a few centuries by the time it grew in importance during the mid-18th Century. The system was based upon the idea of a central auth...
A co-operative society is an association of individuals who voluntarily pool their resources and carry on the business for their own welfare and not for a profit seeking business. It is also a development which will help to achieve the economic and social development of the State, and also support the national economy, because co-operation is one of the most important foundations that help in the development of local communities . It is democratic form of organization in which the consumers are the owners of the business. From manager to clerk all are the owners of the business and all the management is in their hands.
Traditional literature in the field of labor relations has focused immensely on its benefit towards the employer and in the process equating it to working rules. This has been so despite the field being expected to cover the process of, labor management, union formation, and collective bargain; all which are anticipated to create a positive employer-employee relationship. This relationship is said to be positive if there exist a balance between employment functions and the rights of the laborer. Also important to note, is that this relation is equally important to the public sector as it is to the private one. Therefore, to ensure a mutually conducive labor environment exists, effective labor management process and inclusive negotiation program should be adopted (Mulve 2006; Walton, 2008).
Social Responsibility- Mondi engages with communities in and around their plantation forests and mills. Their social investments help drive development by focusing on health, education and local enterprise.
Government as the highest institutional department also needs to support this program. Giving a full attention and strict organize can be a good way to control the quality of the village’s development.