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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... percent overall , 14 percent private sector ) . Collective bargaining also became more decen- tralized ( Simms and Charlwood 2010 ) . As unions lost membership and clout , the imperative of organizational survival made them more ...
... percent of British workplaces have no form of employee representation ( union or non - union ) , NER density has increased among larger private - sector workplaces from 6 percent in 2004 to 13 percent in 2011 , but nonetheless overall ...
... percent in the pri- vate sector . Given the bar on many forms of NER , the American employ- ment relations system evidently has a growing and potentially quite large participation — representation gap ( Freeman 2007 ) . Of course ...
... per- cent of the American workforce , or 34 percent of the non - union workforce , reports they work in an organization with a company - created system in which worker representatives meet with management ; 14 percent of respon- dents ...
... percent said " to some extent " and 37 percent " said “ to a great extent . ” Apparently the NLRA is less restrictive in practice than it is on paper . OVERVIEW OF THE TWELVE CHAPTERS Provided next is a brief overview of each of the ...
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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