Participation in Decision-Making and Decentralized Bargaining

ISBN-13: 9783639141375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 168 str.

Brenda Scott-Ladd

Opis

This text explores the role of employee participationin decision-making within the devolved Australianindustrial relations environment. WorkplaceBargaining aimed to facilitate labour marketrestructuring and improve productivity, but alsooffered employees greater opportunity to participatein changed work practices, conditions of employmentand improve their rewards. Concerns quickly emergedas work intensified, hours and job insecurityincreased. Was employee participation even happening? This text reports on a cross-sectional andlongitudinal investigation, using Structural EquationModelling to investigate these relationships. Theresults indicate that participatory decision-makingcontributes to job satisfaction, affective commitmentand productivity. The caution is that increaseddemands for performance need to be matched withequitable rewards and should not extend to roleoverload, which can reduce commitment, satisfactionand ultimately effectiveness.

O autorze

Brenda Scott-Ladd PhD, studied at the Graduate School of
Business, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. She
has many years experience as a consultant in Organisational
Development, Change and Human Resource Management to the private
and public sectors and has taught in Australia, Singapore,
Malaysia, Hong Kong and China.