the behavior and performance of employers. …

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 …. Employees working in establishments with a works council are more likely to face a formal performance appraisal procedure. Works …

hypothesis that financial and productivity performance is superior in establishments without worker representation is not … favorable regime for financial performance, although this does not carry over to the labor productivity outcome. On net, however …, the evidence suggests that the selected management practices are likely to be favorable to performance in plants with and …

representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The focus is on the growing links … between these two historically separate literatures. The interaction between worker representation and high performance work …-determined hierarchy for productivity performance and certainly no blue-print for the future of unions. -- worker representation ; employee …

effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use … influence and voice on shopfloor decision making than other workers; (ii) workers whose pay is tied to firm performance are more … likely to have a stake in firm performance and hence demand such influence and voice; and (iii) consequently workers in firms …