In Europe worker participation in management decision making is an established idea. In the NL, every firm with more than 100 employees must form a works council of up to 25 employees.

By instinct and tradition, U.S. labor unions have been content to leave the actual running of companies to management, preferring to stress the bread-and-butter issues of wages, hours and working conditions. But in Europe, worker participation in management decision making is an established idea that keeps spreading continually into more…

Shell group is second in the world oil industry (after Jersey Standard) and the largest industrial enterprise of any kind outside the U.S. Shell’s earnings rose in 1969 7.9% to $1 billion.

“Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found,” says L.E.J. Brouwer, senior managing director of Royal Dutch/Shell. Brouwer speaks from sometimes painful experience. Though the Shell group is second in the world oil industry (after Jersey Standard) and the largest industrial…