Eine gute Theorie der industriellen Beziehungen muß auch für Arbeitsplätze gelten, die nicht gewerkschaftlich organisiert sind. Sie sollte also solche Regeln herausarbeiten, die funktionsfähige Beschäftigungsverhältnisse ermöglichen, weil sie von Arbeitnehmern und Unternehmen akzeptiert...

Enterprise management involves finding solutions for many problems in which information is incomplete and for which co-operative relationships with employees are needed if the firm’s objectives are to be realised. To this end, management may develop practices one of whose side-effects is to...

This working paper deals with the effects of collective bargaining and other forms of collective employee representation (such as works councils) on employment and unemployment. Collective bargaining is concerned with both substantive issues, such as rates of pay or weeks of notice to be given...

The introduction of performance-related pay with performance management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...

This chapter brings new evidence on the relationship between employees' well-being, sickness absence, and four dimensions of workplace performance: productivity, efficiency, quality of service, and profitability. It uses a new panel data set with monthly observations over two years for 48 local...