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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... Australia , Britain , and Canada . Free - market solutions were emphasized while pluralist institutions , such as trade unions , protective labour laws , and social welfare programs , were sin- gled out for criticism and dismantling ...
... 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). Established at the federal level in 1904 ...
... Australia has shifted - perhaps transformed is not an overstatement — in ways that have encouraged development and spread of NER ( Gollan 2000 ) . First , several Labour - led federal governments , followed more dramatically by a ...
... Australian Worker and Representation and Participation Sur- vey ( 2003–04 ) , reported in Teicher , Holland , Pyman ... Australia . This finding sug- gests that , contrary to intuition , nonunion arrangements complement rather than ...
... Australia , Canada , United Kingdom , and United States . Suncorp Paul J. Gollan and Ying Xu present a case study of NER at one of Austra- lia's largest financial service companies , Suncorp Group . The company has extensive operations ...
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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