Competent or Competitive? How Employee Representatives Gain Influence in Organizational Decision-Making

Conflicts of interest between management and employees are part of organizational life. To manage these conflicts, employee representatives ( ER s) often participate in organizational decision‐making. The objectives of this article were to investigate the relation between perceived competences of ER s and their influence on organizational decision‐making in different types of issues, and the mediating effect of ER s’ conflict behaviors on these...