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Influence of management attitudes on the implementation of employee participation

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  • Valentina Franca

    (University of Primorska, Slovenia)

  • Marko Pahor

    (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

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This article examines the role of management in the system of employee participation. It builds on the premise that management can have a sizeable impact on how employee participation is put into practice. The authors develop a comprehensive index of employee participation implementation and test the relation between management’s attitudes towards employee participation and the implementation of employee participation in a cross-sectional survey among 225 managers in Slovenia, using a mail-solicited web-based questionnaire. The results indicate a positive link between managers’ support for participation and its actual implementation. If managers perceive a positive link between employee participation and corporate performance they will tend to put such participation into practice to a greater extent.

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  • Valentina Franca & Marko Pahor, 2014. "Influence of management attitudes on the implementation of employee participation," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 35(1), pages 115-142, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:35:y:2014:i:1:p:115-142
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X12464070
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