Monetarisierung und Individualisierung: Historische Analyse der betrieblichen Sozialpolitik bei Siemens (1945-1989) (Beitrage Zur Unternehmensgeschichte)

English Description: Why do companies voluntarily offer their employees social benefits? And how and on what basis do the corporate social politics change over time? Almuth Bartels examines the little researched reconceptualization of corporate social politics of major corporations following World War II. An example of the social benefits offering at Siemens in the period from 1945 to 1989 demonstrates how the economic and social changes influenced the shape of corporate social benefits. Thus they required first monetization, in the sense of an increase in cash influx and an increase of financial benefits, and then individualization, in the sense of a stronger reduction on the personal needs of employees. In her work, the author strikes a balance between the socio-economic processes in the society of the Federal Republic of Germany and the results at the company level. She closes a gap in the scholarly research of corporate history of Siemens and at the same time provides hypothesis for the corporate social politics of large-scale industrial concerns in the Federal Republic of Germany.