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. This Project covers the fourth wave of data collection. The Panel data are going to be linked with the IAB Establishment Panel and the individual administrative data to form a unique data set, which allows high-quality research on personnel economic questions. The data are also available to researchers via FDZ.