Jeff Hyman

Employee Voice and Participation

Contested Past, Troubled Present, Uncertain Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781138043787
• ISBN-10: 1138043788
• Artikelnr.: 52379783

Autorenporträt

Jeff Hyman is Professor Emeritus in Employment Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and Honorary Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews, UK. His long-standing research and teaching interests are in employee participation and the future of work.

Inhaltsangabe

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