Essay from the year 2000 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Warwick (Warwick Business School), course: Industrial Relations in Europe, language: English, abstract: In this essay, I present the main features of the former German model of industrial relations first followed by an analysis of the problems of East Germany adopting it. I point out the main problems of the whole system nowadays in the united Germany and analyse to what extent they are influenced or even caused by the reunification after that.