Managing Employee Involvement And Participation

Author : Jeff Hyman Bob Mason,Professor Jeff Hyman,Dr Bob Mason
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1446231992

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Managing Employee Involvement and Participation by Jeff Hyman Bob Mason,Professor Jeff Hyman,Dr Bob Mason Pdf

As issues of employee involvement and participation once more evoke considerable controversy, this textbook provides an accessible overview of the main strands, perspectives and debates in current thinking and practice. It adopts a comparative international approach, addressing developments in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, the United States and elsewhere. The authors identify two main strands of evolution: one driven by managerial interests in enhancing and controlling employee commitment and performance; the other deriving from employees' attempts to influence high-level organizational decision-making. In particular, they examine and analyze: the background of key concepts, issues and philosophies underpinning these different strands; the range of current employee involvement methods, from the individualistic and management-led to more regulated collective approaches; and the rationales and responses of employees, unions and employers to the various initiatives. Throughout the book the authors evaluate the contrasting philosophies and practices in the context of the rapidly evolving organizational and economic landscapes of advanced industrialized countries. Relevant factors include declines in manufacturing industries, deregulation of labour markets, intensifying international competition and the ever-increasing globalization of enterprise.

Author : Jeff Hyman,Bob Mason
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0803987277

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Managing Employee Involvement and Participation by Jeff Hyman,Bob Mason Pdf

As issues of employee involvement and participation once more evoke considerable controversy, this textbook provides an accessible overview of the main strands, perspectives and debates in current thinking and practice. It adopts a comparative international approach, addressing developments in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, the United States and elsewhere. The authors identify two main strands of evolution: one driven by managerial interests in enhancing and controlling employee commitment and performance; the other deriving from employees' attempts to influence high-level organizational decision-making. In particular, they examine and analyze: the background of key concepts, issues and philosophies underpinning

Author : Adrian Wilkinson,Paul J. Gollan,Mick Marchington,David Lewin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191607202

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The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations by Adrian Wilkinson,Paul J. Gollan,Mick Marchington,David Lewin Pdf

Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether direct or indirect - conducted with employees or through their representatives. In its various guises, the topic of employee participation has been a recurring theme in industrial relations and human resource management. One of the problems in trying to develop any analysis of participation is that there is potentially limited overlap between these different disciplinary traditions, and scholars from diverse traditions may know relatively little of the research that has been done elsewhere. Accordingly in this book, a number of the more significant disciplinary areas are analysed in greater depth in order to ensure that readers gain a better appreciation of what participation means from these quite different contextual perspectives. Not only is there a range of different traditions contributing to the research and literature on the subject, there is also an extremely diverse sets of practices that congregate under the banner of participation. The handbook discusses various arguments and schools of thought about employee participation, analyzes the range of forms that participation can take in practice, and examines the way in which it meets objectives that are set for it, either by employers, trade unions, individual workers, or, indeed, the state. In doing so, the Handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world who present and discuss fundamental theories and approaches to participation in organization as well as their connection to broader political forces. These selections address the changing contexts of employee participation, different cultural/ institutional models, old/'new' economy models, shifting social and political patterns, and the correspondence between industrial and political democracy and participation.

Author : John L. Cotton
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076001340095

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Employee Involvement by John L. Cotton Pdf

This volume examines the different ways in which businesses can improve performance by cultivating more employee involvement in their jobs and in the organization itself. The first chapters review the history and empirical research in this area and make a case for greater employee participation in the workplace. Subsequent chapters survey the varieties of employee participation - quality of work, life programmes, quality circles, gain-sharing plans, self-directed work teams and employee ownership - with special attention to implementation. The final chapters summarize the success factors for better employee involvement systems.

Author : Ray Markey,Paul Gollan,Ann Hodkinson,Alain Chouraqui,Ulrike Veersma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351745635

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Models of Employee Participation in a Changing Global Environment by Ray Markey,Paul Gollan,Ann Hodkinson,Alain Chouraqui,Ulrike Veersma Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. Management of the employment relationship changed markedly in the last two decades of the 21st century, and a major part of this has been the extension of employee involvement and participation in the workplace. Modern management theorists and researchers have commonly emphasized the importance of two-way communication and co-operation between management and labour in determining the success of human resource management (HRM) strategy and in maximizing workplace efficiency. Some researchers argue employee participation and empowerment are progressive management practices which have universal benefits to performance enhancement, as opposed to most other HRM practices whose success is contingent upon the organizational context. This title explores these themes through an international collection of case studies, which are the outcome of a comparative project of the Workers' Participation Study Group of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA).

Author : John L. Cotton,Cary L. Cooper,Ivan T. Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222881715

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Employee Involvement by John L. Cotton,Cary L. Cooper,Ivan T. Robertson Pdf

Author : John Gennard,Graham Judge
Publisher : CIPD Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843980630

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Employee Relations by John Gennard,Graham Judge Pdf

Written by the Chief Examiner and Associate Examiner for employee relations for the CIPD, the new edition of this best-selling text has been written specifically to cater for the CIPD's Employee Relations elective. Offering a highly practical and accessible overview of the impact of the economic, corporate and legal environment on employee relations, it is also suitable for students taking an employee/industrial relations module on an HR or business degree programme at undergraduate or postgraduate level. TARGETED AT - Students studying CIPD Professional Qualifications and undergraduate and post graduate students on employee relations modules on business and HRM courses

Author : Jeff Hyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351699198

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Employee Voice and Participation by Jeff Hyman Pdf

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.

Author : Involvement and Participation Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Management
ISBN : OCLC:1436199497

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Employee Involvement and Participation Redefined by Involvement and Participation Association Pdf

Author : Mick Marchington
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0631186778

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Managing the Team by Mick Marchington Pdf

The 1980s saw a massive increase in management initiated employment involvement (EI) schemes. Team briefing, quality groups and team working, for instance, have become established practice throughout the developed world as employers recognize the imporatnce of their workforce as a resource. Managing the Team provides a comprehensive guide to the practice of employee involvement. As well as dealing with specific forms of EI, Marchington provides a framework within which the different EI initiatives can be located and makes use of case studies to illustrate best practice. These studies are drawn from a wide range of industries and sectors. The book covers all major forms of EI, including: ∗ written and face to face communications ∗ problem solving techniques ∗ task–based job redesign ∗ representative participation ∗ fnancial involvement Managing the Team is a highly practical, up to date and comprehensive resource for all HR professionals.

Author : Juliette Summers,Jeffrey D. Hyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Management
ISBN : 1859352987

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Employee Participation and Company Performance by Juliette Summers,Jeffrey D. Hyman Pdf

A review of the links between employee participation, job satisfaction and company performance. This report is the first major appraisal of contemporary employee participation practices and their outcomes. It brings together existing research evidence on the links between employee participation, company performance and the quality of working life and, whilst recognising that these links are complex, the authors address the main issues to bring our understanding up to date. Published at a time when management diversity is topical, the review explores the extent to which there is an economic case for greater employee involvement at work, highlighting the role of trade unions in promoting employee interests in the new economy. It is particularly important in the context of family - friendly employment practices and progression at work.

Author : Aviad Bar-Haim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313076299

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Participation Programs in Work Organizations by Aviad Bar-Haim Pdf

Employee participation programs have many faces, many definitions, many forms—and they change all the time. For some people they are meant to solve every problem in the workplace. For others they are ways to reduce resistance to management and its efforts to bring about organizational change. Still others see them as totally redundant and a hindrance to efficency and the implementation of good management practices. To make sense of it all, Bar-Haim integrates—historically, thematically, analytically—the wide but often incoherent knowledge we have about these programs, and in doing so portrays them in a clear, useful, multidimensional manner. The result is a work of scholarship and practical guidance that students, scholars, researchers, and executives will find important, an action-oriented source of vital information. Bar-Haim shows that participation programs in work organizations have always attempted to solve three basic human problems, problems stemming from industrial democracy and equality, work alienation, and occupational and managerial effectiveness. To do this he uses a rare multidimensional technique. He describes and analyzes the processes and behavior of participation, participants, and organizational forms using a a variety of conceptual and theoretical frames drawn from the social and management sciences. He enhances our understanding of participation programs on micro and macro levels, and then provides practical guidelines from the real-world experience of other scholars and executives. Among the several ironies he discovers are that the roles of enthusiasts, opponents, and skeptics changed during the course of a jubilee of these programs. By integrating a large body of research and suggesting a formal model to evaluate existing employee programs and projected ones, his book attempts to ease the enigmatic ambivalence we have toward worker participation in general. In fact, he shows that by better understanding the dynamics of participation programs, it is possible for those who desire such programs to create, construct, and maintain better ones.

Author : CIPD
Publisher : CIPD Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Management
ISBN : 0852929471

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Management Choice and Employee Voice by CIPD Pdf

Author : Dennis Nickson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750665728

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Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries by Dennis Nickson Pdf

Dennis Nickson takes an integrated look at HRM policies and practices in the tourism and hospitality industries. Utilising existing human resource management theory and practice, it contextualises it to the tourism and hospitality industries by looking at the specific employment practices of these industries.

Author : Jacques Bélanger,Canada. Human Resources Development Canada. Applied Research Branch
Publisher : [Hull, Quebec] : Applied Research Branch, Human Resources Development Canada
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924091721070

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The Influence of Employee Involvement on Productivity by Jacques Bélanger,Canada. Human Resources Development Canada. Applied Research Branch Pdf

Research indicates that greater employee involvement in workplace decisions has a positive impact on workplace productivity and firm performance generally. This paper presents a qualitative assessment of this research, with a focus on understanding how employee involvement can improve productivity. It studies the development of innovative work systems in recent years and also discusses the conditions that are necessary for sustaining and stimulating workplace innovations that enhance productivity. The final sections consider possible directions for research and public policy.