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"Digital transformation goes hand in hand with profound changes to company structures. One aspect of digital transformation are algorithm-based decisions which strongly affect decision-making processes in general but also those between the company and employee representatives. This changes where employee representation can be introduced in decision-making, as well as how it is implemented and what competencies are required to do so. This conceptual article looks into how employee representation voice can be kept alive in organisational algorithm-based decision-making processes. To do this, employee (representation) voice will be de-rived from the German co-determination model. Analogue decision-making is then initially described as a social negotiation process, and modelling is used to show how it is linked to sensemaking in order to back up this claim. In contrast, it is highlighted how algorithm-based decision-making influences this analogue process. To face the resulting changes and challenges, the concept of “big judgement” is described. This concept proposes both structural problem-solving approaches as well as employee representative qualification requirements to provide scope for employee representation voice in algorithm-based decision-making and to avoid a culture of silence"

"Multirationality in negotiation and decision-making processes within co-determination

Currently works council typologies are often used to describe negotiation processes between employers and corporate co-determination. These generally pursue a more poweroriented perspective to describe the negotiation processes and their results. In complex and largely unknown environments, however, this focus seems to be too narrow. For this reason, a conceptual framing of these processes, one dependent on a multi-rational perspective, is empirically applied to a case study of the Roadmap Digital Transformation of the Volkswagen brand. To this end, the article develops two logics of action based on a specific context of codetermination: a functional-economic rationality of corporate representation and a socioeconomic rationality of corporate co-determination. Depending on the specific subject of negotiation it is shown that the two rationalities in the course of the negotiation process either tolerate each other or promote innovative compromise solutions. Only such substantive issues that correspond to the core of the respective rationality contribute to polarization, i. e. the enforcement of one of the positions."