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Concerns the current and proposed mandatory requirements for employers to collectively consult those who work for them. Shows that the rhetoric in favour of consultation as a process of co‐operation in the mutual interests of both employers and employees can lead to weak and ineffective legislation. Rather than having a model of mutuality of interests, it might be necessary to adopt a conflictual model, where mandatory consultation is seen as imposing obligations on employers and giving rights to employees.

To assess attitudes toward the effectiveness of an employee assistance program (EAP), a survey was sent to a random sample of 16,603 employees and adult dependents of a large, multinational company. Four groups were surveyed: employees who had used the EAP, adult dependents who had used the EAP, employees who had not used the EAP, and adult dependents who had not used the EAP. The findings indicated that both employee and adult dependent EAP users viewed the EAP more positively than did employee and adult dependent nonusers. Regression analyses indicated that factors including perception of EAP confidentiality, perceived support by other employees, and belief that the EAP would not negatively affect the career were related to positive views of the EAP among both EAP users and nonusers.

Based on a review of the literature within the field of job satisfaction and organizational commitment this paper proposes a generic model for measuring employee perceptions. The model consists of seven latent constructs operationalised through 29 manifest indicators. This model is subsequently tested on data from a questionnaire survey to which approximately 9,600 employees from the Nordic countries responded. The statistical technique applied for this analysis is partial least squares (PLS), which is well suited for structural equation modelling when the focus is on prediction. The results support the structure of the suggested generic model but reveals differences between the Nordic countries with regard to strength of the relationships as well as the average case value of the seven latent constructs.

The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of measures designed to enhance employee ownership in the context of the Portuguese privatization process. The authors seek to quantify the advantages offered to employees in the bundle of special conditions they were entitled to, using data from 60 privatization operations between 1989 and 1999. The risky decision to buy shares in their own firms sometimes enabled employees to make a good investment, when stock market activity permitted it. In other cases, in spite of the breadth of the potential benets offered to encourage employees, the results associated with these investments were actually negative.