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The impact on absenteeism and quits of profit-sharing and other forms of employee participation

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Nicholas Wilson
Michael J. Peel
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Using data on 52 engineering and metal working firms in the United Kingdom in 1983-84, the authors of this study investigate how employee participation affects absenteeism and quit rates. Included in the explanatory model are measures of union presence, formal schemes for employee involvement in decision-making, employees' perceived participation in decision-making (based on interviews), and the extent of employee financial participation through profit-sharing, share ownership, and fringe benefits. The results indicate that firms with participation schemes had significantly lower average absenteeism and quit rates than firms without such schemes. (Abstract courtesy JSTOR.)

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Article provided by ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University in its journal ILR Review.

Volume (Year): 44 (1991)
Issue (Month): 3 (April)
Pages: 454-468
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  1. Douglas Kruse & Richard Freeman & Joseph Blasi, 2008. "Do Workers Gain by Sharing? Employee Outcomes under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options," NBER Working Papers 14233, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Georges Dionne & Benoit Dostie, 2005. "New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data," Cahiers de recherche 05-04, HEC Montréal, Institut d'économie appliquée. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Fumio Ohtake, 2003. "Unions, the Costs of Job Loss, and Vacation," NBER Chapters, in: Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States, pages 371-390 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
  4. Pouliakas, Konstantinos & Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos, 2009. "Variety of Performance Pay and Firm Performance: Effect of Financial Incentives on Worker Absence and Productivity," MPRA Paper 18238, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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