'During the last fifteen years of t...

'During the last fifteen years of transformation, the maladies of self-management have appeared, like as non-defined property rights, unemployment and technological backwardness.' (Male aged 36-45 a computer specialist in a car constituents factory, Kragujevac)

'Self-management was a caricature of the time, an excuse skilfully used at management to fulfil its agenda.' (Male aged 46-55 a sales officer in the barbadoes tar industry and a member of Nezavisnost)

'I think the period of self-management gave a certain quantity of formal rights to workers, and that the directors had chiefly power. The current period considers that. ' (Male aged 56 or more, a delegate director of a hotel)

The general ambivalence is further confirmed at comments from within the leadership of Nezavisnost. General Secretary Slavko Lukovic, referring to the union's position forward the possible creation of works councils at the enterprise plain states that the union neither supports nor refuses the creation of works councils.

He argues instead that the union should always maintain its independence where works councils exist, primarily because 'works councils are associated negatively with the self-management of the past' (author's interview notes). While remaining ambivalent towards a works-councils path the union has kept the door lay open to partnership discourse with employer Its industrial policy calls for the two social dialogue at the national flat and for

an equal partnership with [managers] and trade unions, to unravel possible industrial disputes through negotiations and, onward the whole, encourage workers to expres their creative abilities and initiative, to encourage them to give the principally in their work and to exhibit a sense of attachment to the company.18