Arbeitspapier
Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey
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 is mixed. From one perspective, the expression of collective voice through works councils may be construed as largely beneficial. However, any such optimistic evaluation is heavily qualified by union organization and in particular workplace unionism. Establishment union density seemingly blunts the performance of employee workplace representation, elevating dissatisfaction at the expense of collaboration.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10899
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation; Collective Bargaining
Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
Labor Standards: Workers' Rights
- Subject
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employee representation
works councils
union agency
collective bargaining
strikes
industrial relations quality
employee motivation and retention
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Addison, John T.
Teixeira, Paulino
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
- 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Addison, John T.
- Teixeira, Paulino
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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