Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/79032 
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2010
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[Journal:] Management Revue [ISSN:] 1861-9916 [Volume:] 21 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Rainer Hampp Verlag [Place:] Mering [Year:] 2010 [Pages:] 244-262
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Rainer Hampp Verlag, Mering
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The main body of research on work councils has been conducted on a collective institutional level, neglecting work council members at an individual level. In times of changing industrial relations, the importance of work councils in management decision making has risen steadily and thus further research of its members is required. This paper sheds light onto work councillors as individuals by investigating personality and attitudinal characteristics using data from a large representative German dataset. The findings are gender-specific and suggest that female work councillors are more extraverted and exhibit a stronger internal Locus of Control, while male work councillors are more conscientious as compared to their non-councillor counterparts. Risk attitudes and reciprocity do not show as valid predictors of work council membership. Implications of the results are discussed.
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work councils
Five Factor Model
risk aversion
locus of control
reciprocity
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