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Psychosocial workload and stress in the workers’ representative

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Using a data set of works councils of trade union IG Metal, this paper investigates psychosocial stress and strain on this specific group in comparison to employees working in administration in general (leadership and non-leadership-role) and ...
Rabe Martin, Giacomuzzi Salvatore, Nübling Matthias   +2 more
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Human Resource Management, Employee Participation and European Works Councils: The Case of Pharmaceutical Industry in Greece

Societies, 2022
Employee participation is a broad notion that encompasses sets of practices that enable employees to participate in the decision-making process on issues affecting them leading to a committed workforce.
Eleni Triantafillidou, Theodore Koutroukis   +1 more
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Codetermination and Power in the Workplace

Journal of Law and Political Economy, 2022
How does codetermination—entitling workers to participate in firm governance, either through membership on company boards or the formation of works councils—affect worker welfare and corporate decision-making?
Simon Jäger, Shakked Noy, Benjamin Schoefer   +2 more
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Success of Process Innovations Through Active Works Council Participation

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Successful innovations are deemed to be necessary requisites for enterprise success. On the other hand, works council participation (“co-determination” in Germany) and employee participation are judged differently as either fostering employee and ...
Kai Breitling, Wolfgang Scholl
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Works councils and performance appraisals [PDF]

Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019
PurposeWe analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of PA systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual employee.Design/methodology/approachWe draw on two complementary data sets.
Grund, Christian, Sliwka, Dirk, Titz, Krystina   +2 more
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Profesinių sąjungų ir darbo tarybų veiklos santykis Lietuvoje ir Europos Sąjungoje

Teisė, 2008
Straipsnyje1 nagrinėjamas papildomų darbuotojų atstovų institucionalizavimas Europos Sąjungos vals­tybėse ir Lietuvoje. Straipsnio tikslas – nustatyti profesinių sąjungų ir darbo tarybų veiklos santykį.
Nerijus Kasiliauskas
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100 Years of the Works Council Act and Current Participation of Employees in Germany

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2020
TIn Germany, the first Works Council Act came into force at the beginning of 1920. After it was suspended in 1934, the Allied Control Council reintroduced co-determination in 1946 and it was finally established after several reforms.
Hagen Lesch
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Works councils and collective bargaining in Germany: A simple but crucial theoretical extension [PDF]

, 2014
A model by Huebler and Jirjahn (2003) suggests that rent-seeking activities of works councils are more limited in establishments covered by collective bargaining.
Uwe Jirjahn
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Convergence and Disparities in European Industrial Relations

Comparative Economic Research, 2013
The aim of the article is to present the areas of the greatest convergence and disparities in industrial relations in the EU. This paper also aims to identify the causes of such situations and to determine the influence of the economic crisis on the ...
Katarzyna Skorupińska
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Company-Based Agreements Secure Employment

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2022
This article provides some empirical results on company-based agreements to safeguard employment during the pandemic from a representative survey of works councils.
Hartmut Seifert, Toralf Pusch
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