We investigate the effect of union membership on job satisfaction. Whilst it is common to study the effects of union status on satisfaction treating individual membership as given, in this paper, we account for the endogenous selection induced by the sorting of workers into unionised jobs. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we address ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of intellectual capital of Turkish automotive supplier industry upon their innovation performance. This study showed that three types of intellectual capital –employee capital, structural capital, and customer capital– had a significantly positive relationship with innovation performance. Moreover, the results also indicated that the hi...

The relevance and continuing existence of industrial relations, as a field of academic study, is facing a number of challenges, particularly in English-speaking countries, as union membership declines, collective bargaining coverage shrinks and the number of strikes wanes each year. yet issues of employment and workplace relations remain significant to economic prosperity and social harmony, pa...

In this paper, we examined the within-person relations between morning recovery level (i.e., feeling refreshed and replenished) and work engagement throughout the day, and between work engagement throughout the day and the subsequent recovery level at the end of the workday. We hypothesized that job stressors (situational constraints, job demands) moderate these relations. A diary study over 1 ...

In this Article, we ask whether the National Labor Relations Act, enacted over seventy years ago, can remain relevant in a competitive economy where nonunion employer discretion is the dominant form of workplace governance. The best opportunity for the NLRA’s continued relevance is the modification of its language and interpretation to enhance worker voice and participation in the nonunion priv...

In this paper we investigate the challenges posed to the German model of employee relations by the different internationalizing strategies of multinational companies (MNCs) in the heavy engineering sector. We also highlight some of the disadvantages of the German model for specific MNC strategies, in particular those relating to global manufacturing strategies based on a standardized product. W...

In this paper we examine haw target setting help firms to assure that their business models are being pursued. We argue that firms can achieve this objective by taking advantage of what they know about cause-and-effect relations present in their business model. We collect data from a retail firm, whose business model is represented by financial and nonfinancial indicators. The firm sets targets...

We use linked data on over 20,000 individuals and almost 1,500 workplaces from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyze the perceived and actual availability of six major familyfriendly work practices amongst British employees. We find a low base rate of actual availability, a lower rate of perceived availability, and evidence that accurate awareness of availability is further li...