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 - management consultation over process improve- ment ) , and this ... representatives are elected or appointed , the NER group is consulted or has ... employee influence . Finally , one also sees a continuum in NER groups with ...
... 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 ...
... employees ( “ part- ners " ) received the bulk of profit and elected representatives to co - manage the company through store - level and company - level councils . During World War II , the British government promoted establishment of ...
... employee representation plans ( ERPs ) were established ( Kaufman 2000 ) ... representatives over a term or condi- tion of employment ( LeRoy 2000 ) ... employee commit- tee or group completely assumes managerial decision making , thus obvi ...
... employee representatives sit on an in - house peer review or arbitra- tion panel . The most recent evidence on NER in the United States comes from survey evidence reported by Godard and Frege ( 2013 ) . They found that 28 per- cent of ...
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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