Governance of employment relation : A relational signaling perspective 1981-1983

<p>Survey among employees of manufacturing plants in the Indianapolis area (United States) and the Atsugi region of Kanagawa Prefecture (Japan). This dataset combines detailed information about the plants and about employees working in these plants. Characteristics of employment situation / r.'s opinion about employment situation / characteristics of company / participation of employees / background characteristics of employee. The data were collected in an organization-based two-stage design. The samples of plants were stratified on the basis of industry and plant size and randomly selected within each stratum. The dataset contains responses of 52 American plants and of 46 Japanese plants. The sample of employees was stratified according to their position in the plant hierarchy and selected randomly from these strata.</p>