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Works councils, training activities and innovation : a study of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014
establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm’s total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …
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Co-determination and innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009
-determination slows down technological progress and reduces innovativeness. -- Co-determination ; innovation ; patents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517154
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Co-Determination and Innovation
Kraft, Kornelius - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155322
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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals
Grund, Christian - 2019
Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861282
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Works councils and performance appraisals
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2019
Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121631
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Employee Participation in the New Millennium : Redefining a Labor Organization under Section 8(a)(2) of the NLRA
LeRoy, Michael H. - 2007
The 104th and 105th Congress considered an amendment, called the TEAM Act, to relax the National Labor Relations Act's restrictions on employee participation in nonunion work groups. Although these bills generated controversy, neither version proposed a substantial change in policy. The greatest...
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Two Representatives but No Representation - An Analysis of Two Cases from Estonia
Kallaste, Epp; Jaakson, Krista; Eamets, Raul - 2007
The authors analyse why the institution of non-unionised employees' representatives (NER) is created if its functions overlap with those of the unions, including collective bargaining and information-consultation. We aim to find how NERs are created and what their role in comparison to unionised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052346
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Industrial Democracy as a New Form of Work Organization and an Evolving Barometer of Human Resource Management Practices in Changing Organizations : A Kaleidoscopy of a Contingent...
Sanni Yaya, Hachimi - 2004
Participative management, which appeared during the fifties, seems to bring a new hope and appears today not only as the energy mobilization vector of firms, but also as the key to a better social organization previously endangered by the industrial revolution. Perceived as the entity best...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068236
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Minority representation at work
Breuer, Matthias; Cai, Wei; Le, Anthony; Vetter, Felix - 2024 - This version: May 2024
Recent proposals for a more inclusive capitalism call for labor and minority representation in corporate governance. We examine the joint promise of labor and minority representation in the context of German works councils. The councils are a powerful form of labor representation that grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528151
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Contested transparency : digital monitoring technologies and worker voice
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Dughera, Stefano; … - 2023
Advances in artificial intelligence and data analytics have notably expanded employers' monitoring and surveillance capabilities, facilitating the accurate observability of work effort. There is an ongoing debate among academics and policymakers about the productivity and broader welfare...
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