This Handbook is an important contribution to knowledge about
employee voice which combines a variety of approaches to the
subject by drawing on different disciplines, forms and
philosophies. It provides new research from a wide range of
national and international experience and covers both collective
and individual means of expressing the views of employees in the
workplace. A feature of the Handbook is that it covers not only
employment relations perspectives on the subject but also draws
upon human resource management as well as organizational studies.
The editors are leading authors in the subject area and have
brought together both established authors and emerging scholars who
have fresh approaches to the role of employee voice in
organizations and society. I am sure that the Handbook will become
a standard reference in the future.' - Russell Lansbury, University
of Sydney, Australia'Given that employee voice has become more
important recently across a range of disciplines, this book is very
timely indeed. It brings together contributions from 50 well-known
academics from different countries who provide a comprehensive
account of employee voice from a variety of historical and
contemporary angles. Crucially it also raises key questions for
current and future research and practice. In my view this book
should be compulsory reading for academics, policy-makers,
practitioners and students in the subject area.' - Michael
Marchington, University of Strathclyde and University of
Manchester, UK The term 'employee voice' refers to the ways and
means through which employees can attempt to have a say and
influence organizational issues that affect their work and the
interests of managers and owners. The concept is distinct, but
related to and often overlapping with issues such as participation,
involvement and, more recently, engagement. This Handbook provides
an up-to-date survey of the current research into employee voice,
sets this research into context and sets a marker for future
research in the area. The contributors are all expert in their
field. The book examines the theory and history of employee voice
and what voice means to various actors, including employers, middle
managers, employees, unions and policy-makers. The authors observe
how these actors engage in various voice processes, such as
collective bargaining, grievance procedures, task-based voice,
partnership and mutual gains. The efforts that have been made to
date to evaluate voice across and between firms are then assessed,
before the contributors go on to open up the debate on potential
new areas for voice research, with a focus on voice and its
relationship to organizational inclusion and exclusion.
Contributors: B. Abbott, M.M.C. Allen, A.C. Avgar, N. Balnave, A.
Barnes, C. Benassi, J. Benders, C.T. Brinsfield, A. Bryson, J.W.
Budd, S. Chillas, N. Cullinane, T. Dobbins, V. Doellgast, J.
Donaghey, T. Dundon, J. Foley, R.B. Freeman, P.J. Gollan, R. Gomez,
M.G. Menendez, J.A. Gruman, B. Harley, E. Heery, P. Holland, S.
Johnstone, S. Kaine, B.E. Kaufman, T. Kretschmer, D. Lewin, A.A.
Luchak, M.M. Lucio, C. MacMillan, A. Marks, W. Nienhuser, S. Owens,
M.F. Ozbilgin , G. Patmore, D.M. Pohler, S. Procter, A. Pyman, A.M.
Saks, M. Sameer, J. Syed, L. Thornthwaite, K. Townsend, A.
Wilkinson, S. Williams, P. Willman, Y. Xu
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