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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 +1 more
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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 +2 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 +2 more
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Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are associated with higher earnings. The wage premium is around 11 percent (and is higher under collective bargaining).
Paulino Teixeira +4 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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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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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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Works Councils in the Production Process [PDF]
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2006 This paper uses data from a nationally representative panel of establishments to estimate the effects of German works councils on firm performance, 1997 - 2000. We analyze the impact of this institution on sales and sales growth using OLC and fixed effect estimates of a translog production function as well as by employing a model in first differences.
John T. Addison +3 more
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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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