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Employee participation and voice (EPV) concern power and influence. Traditionally, EPV has encompassed worker attempts to wrest control from employers through radical societal transformation or to share control through collective regulation by trade unions. This book offers a controversial alternative arguing that, in recent years, participation has shifted direction.
In Employee Voice and Participation, the author contends that participation has moved away from employee attempts to secure autonomy and influence over organisational affairs, to one in which management ideas and initiatives have taken centre stage. This shift has been bolstered in the UK and USA by economic policies that treat regulation as an obstacle to competitive performance. Through an examination of the development of ideas and practice surrounding employee voice and participation, this volume tracks the story from the earliest attempts at securing worker control, through to the rise of trade unions, and today's managerial efforts to contain union influence. It also explores the negative consequences of these changes and, though the outlook is pessimistic, considers possible approaches to address the growing power imbalance between employers and workers.
Employee Voice and Participation will be an excellent supplementary text for advanced students of employment relations and Human Resource Management (HRM). It will also be a valuable read for researchers, policy makers, trade unions and HRM professionals.
Contents
Acknowledgements, Abbreviations. Introduction: history and evolution of employee participation, Why the need for a new book on employee participation?, Problems of definition, Measuring EPV, Industrial democracy, Employee participation, Employee involvement, Conclusions. 1. Why do employee participation and voice matter?, Introduction, Links between EPV and democratic values, Associations between discretion and autonomy at work and dignity, satisfaction, employee health and wellbeing, Impact of EPV on economic performance and productivity, Conclusions. 2. Political perspectives on employee participation and voice, Introduction, Coordinated and liberal markets, The role and impact of legislation, Government intervention in the European Union, Conclusions. 3. Management perspectives on employee participation and voice, Introduction, The defensive role of EPV, Humanisation of work, Strategy and human resource management, Organisational and human resource management strategy, Management and EPV, Conclusions. 4. Employee and trade union perspectives on employee participation and voice, Introduction, What do employees want?, Precarious work, A voice for the precarious worker?, Voice and silence, Employees and trade unions in Europe, Conclusions. 5. Profit sharing and employee share ownership - panacea or gimmick?, Introduction, The range of financial participation, Profit-sharing schemes, Employee share schemes, Employee ownership, Conclusions. 6. High-performance work and its antecedents, Introduction, Origins of HPWS: lean production, The influence of people management, Research on HPWSs, Conclusions. 7. Empowering and engaging employees, or simply reinventing the wheel?, Introduction, Employee empowerment, Employee engagement, Conclusions. 8. What's not to like about teamworking?, Introduction, Why teamworking?, Types of teams, What makes a team?, The question of team autonomy, Teams and lean, Conclusions. 9. Collective participation, Introduction, The decline of collective bargaining in the UK, Collective bargaining experience in Europe, Different directions? Joint consultation in the UK and Europe, Works councils and codetermination: the experience of Europe, Supervisory boards and codetermination, Partnership at work: a tale of two systems, Conclusions. 10. Internationalisation and the impact of European Works Councils, Introduction and background, Forms and processes of EWCs, Early research on EWCs, Revision of the Directive and the 2009 Recast, EWC experience following the 2009Recast, Conclusions. 11. Global markets and prospects for employee emancipation, The context for globalisation, China and voice, India and voice, Conclusions. 12. An uncertain future?, Introduction: a contested past, EPV: a troubled present, EPV: an uncertain future?, The impact on the UK of leaving the EU, Prospects for EPV, Closing the participation gap, The future of work. References
