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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... Workers who have their own non - union system are more reluctant to unionize , more likely to offer man- agement another chance to rectify conditions , and when truly frustrated , worker representative in non - union systems lead the ...
... workers , the movement did not gain much foothold in Britain . Fox ( 1985 ) provides this portrait ( p . 255 ) : The British scene constituted unfavourable soil for joint works councils . Here and there employers had set - up worker ...
... workers . The welfare capitalism movement then went bust in the Great Depression of the 1930s and NER plans were widely discredited as employers abandoned consulta- tion and mutual gain and shifted to the low road of wage cuts , mass ...
... worker representatives meet with management ; 14 percent of respon- dents outside unions also reported that they ... workers , " NER significantly outperforms unions ( 54 percent vs. 41 percent ) . A surprising result in their survey ...
... workers little influence . Although workers initially expressed ambivalence about union representation , frustration with the company and CC brought unionism to Eurotunnel in 2000. The CC was maintained but restructured , thus ...
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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