Job quality and economic success: A longitudinal study on development in German plants

Project duration: 01.02.2012 to 30.11.2017

Abstract

Demographic changes, the increasing importance of work-life balance and the need for highly specialized workers force companies to adjust their human resource strategies. Being successful more and more becomes a result of how well firms manage to attract skilled employees, qualify and bind workers effectively. The correlation on HR-management, corporate culture and economic success has not been systematically analyzed in Germany, yet. Our study is determined to offer quality data for research in this field. Plant representatives and employees from these plants will be interviewed on corporate culture and management practices three times within 6 years. The data is going to be linked with the IAB Establishment Panel and the individual administrative data to form a unique data set. As economic sectors as well as plant size will be accounted for drawing the sample, the data will allow representative evaluations for Germanys.