background many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

Based on data from 1,357 Canadian private sector workplaces, this study found no support for the argument that formal employee participation is a universal “best practice.” However, it found considerable support for the contingency and configurational perspectives, as there were significant interactions between employee participation and business strategy, and between employee participation and...

This paper examines the institutional characteristics of UK Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and considers the extent to which ESOPs extend employee participation and industrial democracy. It is suggested that ESOPs in themselves do not extend industrial democracy. Instead patterns of employee participation are substantially determined by the goals of those primarily responsible for estab...

The goal of this study was to identify the determinants of employee participation in organizations across Europe. Power distance, uncertainty avoidance, competition, unionisation, sector, organizational size and business strategy were all expected to influence amount of employee involvement. The hypothesised relationships were contrasted using data from the EPOC survey, a representative survey ...

This paper measures the productivity impact of shop-floor employee involvement. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the study finds that the introduction of team-work and autonomous work groups, and a reduction of hierarchies in 1996/97 significantly increased average establishment productivity in 1997 – 2000. The estimation strategy controls for unobserved invariant...

Although a common organizational intervention, research investigating the impact of compensation system implementation on employee outcomes is limited. As one type of intervention, job evaluation usually includes substantial employee participation in order to improve employee pay satisfaction. This assumption, however, is rarely validated. To address this weakness, the present study examines, i...

Previous studies have found out the positive relationship between customer participation and employee service innovation behavior. In the era of the experience economy, moreover, customer participation is an effective method to solve the lag problem of employee service innovation. Using questionnaire data collected between April and July 2016 from 20 service enterprises in Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Q...

Background Many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. Empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

Introduction This paper reports on recent Danish research into how employee participation affects the quality of the work environment. The research took its point of departure in the dual expectation that employee participation in general has positive effects on the quality of the work environment (QWE) but that the positive effects in certain organisational contexts may be usurped and even tur...

100-word Abstract. This paper examines roles of mandated Employee Participation Rights (EPRs), such as works council legislation, in corporate governance. Links between employment and corporate relationships are stressed. Market failure arguments are developed, predicting that EPRs, and the interaction between EPRs and investments in skills, can positively impact productivity; preliminary evide...