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Presentation of a new government for the companies based on symmetry of interest between the wage-earners and the shareholders*…
If shareholders and wage-earners (and managers) are partners, if the company is their common ground of partnership, if all of them are interested in the success of their company, thus taking part in the growth, the first asking for more dividends, the second individually asking for better salaries and collectively asking for more jobs, then it is time to ask if the historical reality can be corrected. This historical reality is that the conflict between work and capital has been made a law, lived as unmovable, non escapable fact. It is time to wonder whether the interest of the firsts and the seconds would not be to distribute differently the results and hazards between the different categories of partners.

Let us refuse to consider that capital and work are necessarily to be opposed, on the contrary, let us accept them as essential complements - the two faces of a same piece, developing or growing harmoniously and fairly. Let us dream that shareholders and wage-earners share differently the risks bound to always increasing hazards, but also share differently the wealth produced by the activities of the company. Let us dream that shareholders and wage-earners share differently the profits ex ante (wages charge) and ex post (benefits). Let us dream that shareholders and wage-earners share more benefits and more wages charge ... Let us have a new vision on the present profit model, do what is required to have new development ways, to have new choices taking the present and future social consequences into account. Let us do what is necessary for the company to meet social as well as economical ends. These are the objectives of the presented model to “govern” the company.

Inspired from the participation formula wanted in France by General de Gaulle during the sixties, and aiming at wage-earners, this formula is characterized by the introduction of a symmetry of interests for both shareholders and wage-earners to have dividends and wage mass increase. From conflictual relations between shareholders and wage-earners, we switch nearly naturally to co-operative relations, with momentums of negotiations created between partners.

According to this model, when wage-earners have a payment made of salary and of a participation index-linked on the results of the company, shareholders have a payment made of dividends and of faithfulness bonus index-linked on the wage mass.

From the shareholders’ point of view, if the formula keeps the same freedom to go elsewhere, less capitalistic risks are expected from their payment reform. From the wage-earners point of view, more participation in the payment, mirroring the obtained results, are inducing new behaviours. These new flexibilities of payments, affecting both kinds of actors, but from opposite point of views, are an important element of the negotiation which must be created between them, to end with their co-operation. On the company’s side, the decrease of predetermined wage charges must be expected with the general hope that this decrease induces an improved picture of paid work.

This model induces an initial equity. It can be also idealized, which means that it can create an everlasting situation, known as optimal for the co-operation between the different actors, hence optimal from the point of view of the collective efficiency. New prospects are created for a new dynamic for the company, based on another look on productivity and growth, taking another account of the medium and long terms…


 * See the book “Pour plus de solidarité entre le capital et le travail ou de nouvelles chances pour l’emploi “ and complements on the ed. L’harmattan site.