“…Studies addressing special issues like New Public Management (NPM) (Bogumil et al, 2007;Kißler et al, 1997Kißler et al, , 2000, performance-related pay (PRP; Schmidt et al, 2011), digitisation (Bogumil et al, 2019;Dose and Lieblang, 2020;Dreas and Klenk, 2021) or recently the COVID-19 pandemic (Behruzi et al, 2021), sometimes discuss the role of staff councils concerning specific topics, but usually do not focus on staff councils themselves. Kißler (2000, 2002) are an exception.…”