This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...

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...

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...

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...

We investigate the relationship between co-determination at the plant level and paid vacation in Germany. From a legal perspective, works councils have no impact on vacation entitlements, but they can affect their use. Employing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that male...

Betriebliche Weiterbildung ist vor dem Hintergrund lebenslangen Lernens wichtig für alle Beschäftigten. Für eine arbeitnehmergerechte Weiterbildung muss der Betriebsrat an Prozessen beteiligt werden. Damit Betriebsratsmitglieder im System betrieblicher Weiterbildung motiviert und sachkundig...

In der Diskussion um die Zukunft der Betriebsratsarbeit im Kontext gesamtwirtschaftlicher Veränderungsprozesse spielt das Innovationshandeln von "gestaltenden Betriebsräten" eine zentrale Rolle. Die Study untersucht, wie sich unterstützende Leistungen (Qualifizierung, Beratung und Vernetzung)...

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

A growing number of econometric examinations show that works councils substantially shape the personnel policy of firms in Germany. Firms with works councils make greater use of various HRM practices. This gives rise to the question of whether employers view the shaping of personnel policy...

Obwohl die cloudgestützte Verarbeitung von Beschäftigtendaten ansteigt, bildet sich diese Tatsache nicht in Betriebsvereinbarungen ab. Werden zwingende Mitbestimmungsrechte nicht oder zumindest noch nicht ausgeübt? Der Grund kann in der Unkenntnis darüber liegen, dass Anwendungen, die...

Nachhaltigkeit und Ressourceneffizienz sind nicht nur im ökologischen, sondern auch im ökonomischen Sinne eine Herausforderung für Unternehmen, bei der die Beteiligung der Beschäftigten wesentlich ist. Den Betriebsräten kommt hierbei eine wichtige Rolle zu, allerdings besteht bislang weder...

Ausgewertet werden 24 Regelungen aus über 20 Jahren Vereinbarungspraxis. Quer durch unterschiedliche Branchen geht es um Umgangsweisen mit Überlastungs- bzw. Gefährdungsanzeigen. Welche Ursachen haben Überlastungssituationen? Wie wird die Interessenvertretung eingebunden? Wie gestaltet sich...

The German model of co-determination (Mitbestimmung) with works councils, in which workers are involved in the management of a company, was a role model for other countries for many years. However, since the 1990s the appeal of works councils has been declining, to the extent that now even...

Es lassen sich drei wesentliche neue Felder der Mitbestimmung identifizieren: die stärkere Einbindung von Beschäftigten durch direkte Partizipation, dieStärkung und Übernahme sozialer Verantwortung (CSR) und die Erschließung neuer Zielgruppen. Innovative Betriebsratsarbeit ist kreativ und...

We estimate dynamic effects of works councils on labor productivity using newly available information from West German establishment panel data. Conditioning on plant fixed effects and control variables, we find negative productivity effects during the first five years after council...

- Die Ausbildung zum "Innovationspromotor" bringt einen neuen Betriebsratstypus hervor, den "aktivierten Betriebsrat". - Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass die teilnehmenden Betriebsräte der Promotorenausbildung ihre Kompetenzen auf allen Ebenen erheblich verbessern konnten. Fast alle...

Using both household and linked employer-employee data for Germany, we assess the effects of non-union representation in the form of works councils on (1) individual sickness absence rates and (2) a subjective measure of personnel problems due to sickness absence as perceived by a firm's...

Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...

A model by Huebler and Jirjahn (2003) suggests that rent-seeking activities of works councils are more limited in establishments covered by collective bargaining. The model predicts that works councils should have a stronger productivity effect and a weaker wage effect in covered than in...

Using both household and linked employer-employee data for Germany, we assess the effects of non-union representation in the form of works councils on (1) individual sickness absence rates and (2) a subjective measure of personnel problems due to sickness absence as perceived by a firm's...

Leiharbeit wird seit längerem immer häufiger genutzt, um Personalausfälle bzw. Auftragsspitzen abzufedern, aber auch um sich strategisch gegen unsichere Absatzmärkte abzusichern. Neuerdings scheint darüber hinaus der Einsatz von Werkverträgen an Bedeutung zu gewinnen. Daraus ergeben sich...

Using both household and linked employer-employee data for Germany, we assess the effects of non-union representation in the form of works councils on (1) individual sickness absence rates and (2) a subjective measure of personnel problems due to sickness absence as perceived by a firm's...

Works councils are an inherent part of the German economic and social system. An analysis of the prevalence of works councils in Germany reveals that they are not uniformly distributed across all types of businesses. Works councils occur less frequently in owner-managed businesses - regardless...