In the scope of organizational life, few events are as universal or as influential as workplace meetings. In this study, we focused our attention on better understanding the relationship between meetings processes and post-meeting outcomes. More specifically, we investigated the relationship between participation in decision-making in meetings (PDM) and employee engagement, after controlling fo...

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups in 1997 significantly increases average establishment productivity in 1997 – 2000. An endogeneous swi...

The management, economics, sociology, and psychology literatures describe a multitude of avenues through which organizations attempt to succeed. One of the most traveled of these is the management of human capital, which usually involves attempts to optimize the return on investments in the workforce. These returns are frequently examined in terms of employee job performance and voluntary turno...

The objective of this paper is to test the influence of individual factors on employee participation in decision making (PDM) among Malaysian middle and top level managers in the private sector. The individual factors involved are trust, demographic similarities and idiocentrism-allocentrism. Leader-member exchange (LMX) is included as a moderating variable for the individual factor – PDM relat...

Widespread employee engagement is the cornerstone of success for many successful firms, but many others firms struggle in their efforts to engender it. This paper draws on extensive fieldwork at a manufacturer adopting practices of the Toyota Production System (TPS) to explore transient success in employee engagement and develop theoretical insights concerning the nature of the transition probl...

Abstract Society is increasingly aware of and sensitive to the deployment sustainability. Therefore, firms must implement policies that not only have a positive effect on their sustainable behavior but also contribute improving competitivity. In this dual context sustainability competitiveness, there has been little in-depth analysis in academic literature impact structured employee participati...