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Cooperation in Diverse Teams : The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Grund, Christian - 2015

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals

Grund, Christian - 2019

Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual...

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The Role of Works Councils for Severance Payments

Grund, Christian - 2017

Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance payments after those dismissals which stem from plant closings, the incidence of a works council is...

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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes

Grund, Christian - 2011

as sex and age are explored. Those between East- and West-Germany diminish over time …

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Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction

Grund, Christian - 2011

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with respect to sex and occupational status. Making use of a German representative sample of employees, we find that employees, who move to a firm with a works council, report...

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Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis : Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector

Grund, Christian - 2013

Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards. Carrying out longitudinal analyses, we find that, on...

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Wages as Risk Compensation in Germany

Grund, Christian - 2021

evidence for compensating wage differentials in Germany so far. Estimating wage regressions with data of the German Socio … differentials in Germany is found even though other effects may partly weaken the existing wage premiums due to risks at work …

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Works Councils as Gatekeepers : Codetermination, Monitoring Practices, and Job Satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2023

linked-employer-employee panel data from Germany. We indeed find that the adoption of formal performance appraisals and …

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Individual and Job-Based Determinants of Performance Appraisal : Evidence from Germany

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2021

We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on individual employees, we test these hypotheses and also explore the impact of PA on performance pay...

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