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Equal Opportunities at the Workplace

Their Impact on Employee Participation.

Equal opportunity practices, including non-discrimination and positive action policies, are examined using WERS 98 data to assess their associations with Joint Consultancy Committees dealing with production issues, working practices and future plans for the workplace. Moreover, the paper examines the impact of ethnicity on employee participation and on the above-mentioned Joint Consultancy Committees. By controlling for various factors, I found that non-discrimination policies are associated with Joint Consultancy Committees dealing with production issues and working practices. On the other hand, I found only partial support for the association between non-discrimination policies and Joint Consultancy Committees dealing with future plans and trends and for the impact of ethnicity on employee participation. No support has been found for the association between ethnicity and Joint Consultancy Committees and between positive action policies and Joint Consultancy Committees.

Keywords: employee participation, equal opportunities, ethnic adherence

Enake možnosti na delovnem mestu

Ali res vplivajo na sodelovanje zaposlenih?

To besedilo preučuje zvezo med ukrepi za zagotavljanje enakih možnosti, ki vključujejo politike nediskriminacije in pozitivne diskriminacije, in odbori za skupno posvetovanje, namenjeni proizvodnim vprašanjem, delovnim praksam in posvetovanju o načrtih za prihodnost. Poleg tega preučuje, kako etnična pripadnost uslužbencev vpliva na sodelovanje zaposlenih in na zgoraj omenjene odbore. Rezultati nakazujejo, da obstaja vzročna zveza med politikami nediskriminacije in odbori, namenjeni proizvodnim vprašanjem in delovnim praksam. Le delno pa sta bili potrjeni hipotezi o zvezi med politikami nediskriminacije in odbori, ki so namenjeni posvetovanju o načrtih za prihodnost ter o zvezi med etnično pripadnostjo in sodelovanjem zaposlenih. Rezultati raziskave pa niso potrdili obstoja zveze med etnično pripadnostjo in odbori ter zveze med pozitivno diskriminacijo in odbori.

Ključne besede: sodelovanje zaposlenih, enake možnosti, etnična pripadnost