Employee Voice and Participation: Contested Past, Troubled Present, Uncertain Future

ISBN-13: 9781138043787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 251 str.

Jeff Hyman

Opis

This book examines the development of ideas and practice surrounding employee voice and participation. It tracks the story from attempts at securing worker control, through to the rise of trade unions, and today’s managerial efforts to contain union influence and implement initiatives to engage employees in order to gain competitive advantage.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.