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Zusatztext Finding a Voice at Work? will no doubt become a benchmark text for all those researching and teaching the changing nature of employment relations. With an impressive list of leading contributors, the book examines the key question of why voice still matters for employment relations and society from a conceptual, empirical and comparative standpoint. It offers a sharp and compelling analysis for why employee voice should be at the centre of public policy debate. Informationen zum Autor Stewart Johnstone is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School and was previously Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Loughborough University. His specialist teaching includes Employment Relations and Human Resource Management courses at undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive levels. A major strand of Stewarts research has been the dynamics of employee voice and participation in both union and non-union firms. In particular, his research has examined organizational attempts to develop collaborative workplace relations in pursuit of mutual gains, and assessed the outcomes of such workplace partnerships for employers, employees, and unions.Peter Ackers is Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour History in the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University, UK. He studied Politics and Philosophy (PPE, including Sociology) at Lincoln College, Oxford University, followed by an MA in Industrial Relations from Warwick University. His specialist teaching is in International Employment Relations, British Social History and Business Ethics. Peter's intellectual interests centre on the sociological and historical aspects of the employment relationship and how this affects ordinary people and society at large. His work stresses the moderate, constructive character of organized labour, with themes of partnership and pluralism, and challenges Radical and Marxist theories of Industrial Relations. Klappentext This book offers a critical assessment of the main concepts and models of employee voice in the UK and Europe. It provides theoretical and empirical exploration of a wide range of 'voice' institutions and initiatives, including forms of representation and management techniques, and mechanisms for information and consultation Zusammenfassung This book offers a critical assessment of the main concepts and models of employee voice in the UK and Europe. It provides theoretical and empirical exploration of a wide range of 'voice' institutions and initiatives, including forms of representation and management techniques, and mechanisms for information and consultation Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword 1: Stewart Johnstone and Peter Ackers: Introduction: Employee Voice: The Key Question for Contemporary Employment Relations PART ONE: KEY CONCEPTS 2: Edmund Heery: Frames of Reference and Worker Participation 3: David Guest: Voice and Employee Engagement 4: Anne-marie Greene: Voice and Workforce Diversity PART TWO: UNION VOICE - COMPETING STRATEGIES 5: Peter Ackers: Trade Unions as Professional Associations 6: Melanie Simms: Union Organizing as an Alternative to Partnership. Or What to do When Employers Can't Keep Their Side of the Bargain 7: Stewart Johnstone: The Case for Workplace Partnership PART THREE: EUROPEAN MODELS and VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM 8: Peter Samuel and Nick Bacon: Social Partnership in Devolved Nations: Scotland and Wales 9: Michael Gold and Ingrid Artus: Employee Participation in Germany: Tensions and Challenges 10: Andrew R. Timming and Michael Whittall: The Promise of European Works Councils: Twenty Years of Statutory Employee Voice 11: Tony Dobbins and Tony Dundon: The EU Information and Consultation Directive in Liberal Market Economies PART 4: LOOKING AHEAD 12: Richard Hyman: Making voice effective: imagining trade union responses to an era of p...
