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Internal promotion or external hire? : staffing management positions when employees have a seat in the boardroom

Gregorič, Aleksandra; Kato, Takao; Larsen, Casper Berg … - 2024

of directors (employee governance representation, EGR) affect firms' propensity to staff management positions through … likely prefer firms to rely on internal labor markets (ILM) when hiring new managers and (2) conceptualizing the employees …' impact on the staffing of management positions via the efficiency mechanism, related to the positive effects of EGR on the …

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How do labor representatives affect incentive orientation of executive compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2016

Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at … interest in increasing incentive-based compensation to avoid management's excessive risk taking and short-run oriented …

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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world : can unions and industrial competition coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2007

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...

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Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex; George, Anitha - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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Unions and establishment performance : evidence from the British workplace industrial/employee relations surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s - and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...

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Worker representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers.

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What does codetermination do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management …

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Robots and worker voice: an empirical exploration

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020

management. Greater automation in establishments with ER does not seem to result from more adversarial employment relationships … workplace practices, such as skill development, job redesign and working time management, that may be complementary to new …

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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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