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The tasks of the workers' self government conference, as fixed by the provisions
of the 1958 Act, may be considered under the following headings: (a) Directing
and co-ordinating the activities of the other organs of workers' self government;
(b) Deciding in those key problems of the enterprise which have become the con
cern of workers' self-government; (c) Exercising control and supervision.
The Workers! Self-Government Act enumerates the following among the rights of
the conference in the field of expertise and control: (a) Examining the anrual
budget of the enterprise together with the account of remits; (b) Examin ing
the reports on the activities of the enterprise handed in by the management;
(c) Establishing the fundamental trends and forms of control exercised by otrer
self-government organs.
The Workers' Self-Government Conference participates in the co-management of
the enterprise, and consequently shares responsibility for the effects cf its
activities, i.e., it participates in the administration. Therefore it is
entitled to participate in management, and in making decisions. It can tims
be said that W.5.G.C. not only exercises control over the activities of the
administration, but also supervises its functioning. The w.S.G. Conferences
are not only organs of self-government in the enterprises. orkers!' councils,
their praesidium as well as the branch (department) workers! councils may be
active side by side with them,
The range of activities of Workers' Councils (its chairman or praesidium)
includes: (a) Expressing opinions concerning the nomination and recalling of
the Managing Director; (b) Control over the contracts concerning supplies,
labour and services, entered into the enterprise with units; (c) Control cver
sales and purchases made on the private market; (d) Control over the wages
fund, the wages list and the rewards and bonuses paid in the enterprise.
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The Praesidium is nominated by the Workers' Council out of its own members. Ex-officio members of the Praesidium are: the representatives of the Workers' Council, the secretary of the committee of the Polish United \orkers' Party and the Chairman of the Workers’ Council of the Traie Union, The Managing Director of the enterprise participates ex-officio via the meetings of both the praesidium and the Workers' Council, Of course the importance of the Workers' Self-Government , whose organisation, scope and forms of activity have been mentioned by me ~ should be measured by its social, practical and economic achievements. In Poland the W.S.G. is treated as a constitutional institution. Indeed, it serves the purpose of expanding the participation of both the manual and white collar workers in the management of state enterprises. The organs of that self-government collaborate with the units of the state administration in carrying out economic tasks. The W.S.G. collaborates with the local representative organs, i.e, the Peoples’ Councils, as well as with other state and social organisations (in order to strengthen the direct participation of the citizens in governing the country). Such is the political sense of the existence, activities and development of the workers' self-government. The W.S.G. plays a major part in the process of improving persone? relations in the production pkant. The exercising of control and surervision over the administration of the enterprise by the workers' self~governrent is one of the conditions of developing the personnel's social initiative and secial activities. By teaching the workers to treat the production tlant es their own, the workers' self-government helps to increase the economic effectiveness of the activities of such enterprises. Owing to the existins connection between the level of workers' wages and such economic effects, this brings about an increase in the individual worker's income. The prosress made so far in the activities of Workers' Self-Government indicates thet this institution is gaining an increasing importance and producing ever better effects in the political, social and economic fields.
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