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...

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...

New style agreements are designed to foster co‐operative, conflict‐free industrial relations. Provides an account of what happened at two Japanese manufacturing transplants in the UK where such agreements were in operation. Management at these companies appeared to operate industrial...