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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... ment, and industrial sociology, this series provides an alternative source of research-based materials and texts, reviewing key developments in employ- ment research. Books published in this series are works of high academic merit ...
... ment ) , and this combination we treat as " most voice " and locate it at the high end of the continuum . The fact that NER is in the relative middle of the voice continuum pro- vides insight on why it is controversial and relatively ...
... ment in the critical frame . NER is part of a larger strategy used by capitalist firms to exploit the labour force , preserve capitalist hegemony inside the firm , and prevent formation of independent trade unions to lead the class ...
... ment. Provided next is a brief summary. Australia Viewed historically, the dominating feature of the Australian employment system is the centralized conciliation and arbitration system (i.e., awards system; Isaac and Macintyre 2004) ...
... ment enacted in 2005 legislation popularly known as Work Choices . This law abolished most of the century - long central wage - fixing system and in a number of ways encouraged individual bargaining and enterprise bargain- ing and ...
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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