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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... tion , and success of NER . However , we have restricted our set of countries to English heritage nations in order to maintain similarity in basic framework characteristics related to business , political , and social - cultural ...
... tion . They also found evidence of a large participation - representation gap ( for Britain , see Towers 1997 ) . These findings , coupled with the marked erosion of union density in most countries , stimulated IR researchers to think ...
... tion through a pluralism of devices , including complementary NER chan- nels in which collective bargaining is in place ( a dual - channel system ) , an articulated vehicle for consultation in negotiation of enterprise agreements , and ...
... tion and higher organizational performance . Although English newspapers and business periodicals carried many sto- ries before World War I about the development of works councils and shop committees in advanced German companies and ...
... tion and mutual gain and shifted to the low road of wage cuts , mass layoffs , and work intensification . The pro - labour policies of Roosevelt's New Deal spurred union organizing and led to a strike wave and growing radicaliza- tion ...
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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