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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... example , advocate it as an important component of the high - road approach that builds more profitable organizations on employee empowerment and mutual gain . Crit- ics , on the other hand , maintain that NER at best is ineffective in ...
... example , a large - scale NER group may be called a Joint Industrial Coun- cil ( JIC ) or Employee - Management Advisory Committee ( EMAC ) , while in the UK and Australia a popular term is Joint Consultative Committee ( JCC ) . In the ...
... example is the triplet Direct , Shared , and Com- munication , such as when an individual employee engages in cooperative discussion with a direct supervisor about a suggestion to improve customer service . At the high end are voice ...
... example , in their well - known book What Do Unions Do ?, Freeman and Medoff ( 1984 : 108 ) refer to NER plans as " window dress- ing , " while a union leader ( Basken 2000 ) derisively refers to NER groups as donkey councils . ” As a ...
... example , originated in Europe and the United States in the late 1800s to early 1900s when the first companies pioneered in - house shop committees and works councils ( Kaufman 2000 ) . Here first appeared NER's positive unitarist face ...
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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