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 …

performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days …

employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 …

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of …