Voice and Involvement at Work: Experience with Non-Union RepresentationPaul J. Gollan, Bruce E. Kaufman, Daphne Taras, Adrian Wilkinson In the last decade, nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labor law. This book examines the purpose, structure, and performance of various types of employee representation bodies created by companies in non-union settings to promote collective forums for voice and involvement at the workplace. This unique volume presents the first longitudinal evidence on the performance, success, and failure of NER plans over an extended time period. Consisting of twelve detailed, in-depth case studies of actual NER plans in operation across four countries, this volume provides unparalleled evidence on such matters as: the motives behind the initial establishment of NER, different organizational forms of NER in industry, key success and failure factors over the long-term, pro and con evaluations for employers and employees, and more. Voice and Involvement at Work captures an unequalled international and comparative perspective through a wide cross-section of different NER forms. |
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... decision makers . Believing these considerations are under - explored and also crucial to informed evaluation and successful practice of NER , we have opted for the case - study method . Of course , these case studies also reflect many ...
... decision - making rights , and the temporary versus permanent nature of the group . An insight of Table 1.1 is that NER is quite multi - faceted along numer- ous dimensions , thus making generalizations more difficult and stereotypes ...
... decision making to managers and employees at the enterprise level . Toward this end , the act allowed non- union companies to establish with their workforces a collective " Enterprise Flexibility Agreement . " Here was an encouragement ...
... decision known as B.C. Health that declared that Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( the country's modern constitution ) Section 2 ( d ) guarantee of freedom of asso- ciation protects the right to bargain collectively . Heralded ...
... decision making , thus obvi- ating “ joint dealing , " such as when a self - managed work team makes a redundancy decision and reports it to management . The other significant exception is for the narrow range of companies outside the ...
Contents
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PART I Australia | 43 |
PART II Britain | 125 |
PART III Canada | 195 |
PART IV United States | 293 |
Contributors | 395 |
Index | 397 |
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