...the regional government and employees get seats on the corporate board. Can you talk about how that shapes how executives behave?
Ewing: Right, the structural thing is the degree of power that the workers have. The temptation this created for management was, you never had to worry about any outsiders if you could appease the workers and the state of Lower Saxony . It allowed the chief executives, if they were willing to sort of make this pact with the workers and the politicians, to have almost dictatorial power, more power than one would get at other companies.
They were only following orders.
“They were only following orders. “
*SHUDDER* Glad my family saw got OUT in time.