joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
codetermination in American English
(ˌkoudɪˌtɜːrməˈneiʃən)
noun
the determination of policy through cooperation, as between management and labor
Word origin
[co- + determination]co- is a prefix meaning “with,” “together,” “in association,” sometimes with the derivedsense “auxiliary, subsidiary” (coenzyme; copilot), and, in mathematics and astronomy, with the sense “complement” (codeclination)