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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... employee representation (NER) has become a much- discussed topic in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labour law. This book examines the purpose, structure, and performance of various types of ...
... Employee Relations Advisory Groups Representatives Committee and Disposition Management Appointed by Decisions Made the Other Party of Irritants Problems Quality Management by Consensus Permanent Only Improvement Employee Employee ...
... employment relations and NER was not really on the industrial radar . After the election of Thatcher in 1979 and in conjunction with the rise of neoliberalism and its attendant free - market policies , union density started to drop in ...
... labour policies of Roosevelt's New Deal spurred union organizing and led to a strike wave and growing radicaliza- tion of employer - employee relations . To stabilize the system and promote unions for purposes of both economic recovery ...
... relations with employees but also a largely unstated but evident desire to keep out unions . Also instructive , the Employee Forum lapsed into inac- tive status after only a year and after an unsuccessful union organizing campaign was ...
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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