Finding a Voice at Work? New Perspectives on Employment Relations

by Johnstone, Stewart; Ackers, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780191813450
• ISBN10: 0191813451
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2015-04-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Stewart Johnstone, Senior Lecturer in HRM, Newcastle University Business School,Peter Ackers, Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour History, Loughborough University

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Mike Emmott (CIPD)
1. Introduction: Employee Voice: The Key Question for Contemporary Employment Relations, Stewart Johnstone & Peter Ackers
PART ONE: KEY CONCEPTS
2. Frames of Reference & Worker Participation, Edmund Heery
3. Voice and Employee Engagement, David Guest
4. Voice and Workforce Diversity, Anne-marie Greene
PART TWO: UNION VOICE - COMPETING STRATEGIES
5. Trade Unions as Professional Associations, Peter Ackers
6. Union Organizing as an Alternative to Partnership. Or What to do When Employers Can't Keep Their Side of the Bargain, Melanie Simms
7. The Case for Workplace Partnership, Stewart Johnstone
PART THREE: EUROPEAN MODELS & VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
8. Social Partnership in Devolved Nations: Scotland and Wales, Peter Samuel and Nick Bacon
9. Employee Participation in Germany: Tensions and Challenges, Michael Gold & Ingrid Artus
10. The Promise of European Works Councils: Twenty Years of Statutory Employee Voice, Andrew R. Timming and Michael Whittall
11. The EU Information and Consultation Directive in Liberal Market Economies, Tony Dobbins and Tony Dundon
PART 4: LOOKING AHEAD
12. Making voice effective: imagining trade union responses to an era of post-industrial democracy, Richard Hyman
13. The Future of Employee Voice in the USA: Predictions from an Employment Relations Model of Voice, Bruce E. Kaufman