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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... 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 interna- tional ...
... employee participation - representation gap . For this reason , and also ... forms of representational voice but also direct face - to - face types of ... employee welfare ; other studies , however , find that NER is largely a marginal ...
... forms and practices . Further , the nomenclature varies from country to country . In Canada , for example , a large - scale NER group may be called a Joint Industrial Coun- cil ( JIC ) or Employee - Management Advisory Committee ( EMAC ) ...
... employee influence . This idea is given parallel representation in a chap- ter by Wilkinson , Gollan , Marchington , and Lewin ( 2010 ) on conceptualiz- ing employee ... forms is presented along a straight line rather than an ascending eight ...
... forms . British data are used because they come from a nationally representative source ( the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey [ WERS ] ) , and the country's legal system is one of the least restrictive regarding employer- ...
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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