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Kalmarian

Kalmarian adjective: being or relating to a labour paradigm involving a mutualization of the responsibility for employment (among businesses, unions, government, etc.) and relatively little hierarchical structure.

Adjective

Kalmarian (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a labour paradigm involving a mutualization of the responsibility for employment (among businesses, unions, government, etc.) and relatively little hierarchical structure.

Origin of Kalmarian

From Kalmar + -ian, after the Swedish city where this approach was used in a Volvo car factory in the 1970s.

Questions about Kalmarian

What does Kalmarian mean?
Kalmarian means being or relating to a labour paradigm involving a mutualization of the responsibility for employment (among businesses, unions, government, etc.) and relatively little hierarchical structure.
What part of speech is Kalmarian?
Kalmarian is an adjective.

Words near Kalmarian in the dictionary

  1. Kalman filtering
  2. Kalman filters
  3. Kalmans
  4. Kalmar
  5. Kalmar Union
  6. Kalmarian
  7. Kalmars
  8. Kalmenoff
  9. kalmia
  10. kalmias
  11. Kalmiuske

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