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Models of Employee Participation in a Changing Global Environment Diversity and Interaction
366 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
I: Perspectives and Theory; 1: Introduction: Global Patterns of Participation; 2: Participation and Industrial Democracy Revisited: A Theoretical Perspective; II: Direct Participation; 3: Why Implement Group Work? Observations and Speculations after a European Survey; 4: Employee Involvement and Organisational Change: The Diffusion of High Involvement Management in Australian Workplaces; 5: New Ways of Working for Women: The Gender Dimensions of Direct Participation; III: Trade Unions; 6: American Experience with Union-Nominated Boards of Directors; 7: National Strategies and Local Diversities: Adding Value through Broad Participation – Experiences from the Norwegian Enterprise Development 2000 Program; 8: Employee Participation and Bipartite and Tripartite Cooperation in Greece: Problems and Prospects; 9: How Managers Perceive Cooperation and Codetermination with Unions: Some Australian and US Comparisons; 10: Efficiency vs Democracy in the Workplace? A Postscript on Self Management at Malta Drydocks; IV: Works Councils and Consultative Committees; 11: Corporate Governance and Workers’ Participation in the Netherlands; 12: Is There a Future for Employee Representation? Understanding the Effects of Changes in Organisation and Work on Works Councils; 13: Between European and National Institutions: European Works Councils in Dutch-owned MNCs as a New Form of Workers’ Representation; 14: Workers’ Participation in Ghana: A Case Study of a State-owned Enterprise in Transition to Privatisation; V: Interaction between Different Forms of Participation; 15: Employee Involvement and Participation in the Organisational Change Decision: Illawarra and Australian Patterns; 16: Works Councils and HRM in Germany: Analytical Arguments and Empirical Evidence; 17: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Employee Participation and Trade Union Action; 18: Top Executives’ Attitude and Preferences Toward Employee Voice and Participation in Singapore; 19: Conclusions: Models of Diversity and Interaction
Biography
Ray Markey, Paul Gollan, Ann Hodkinson, Alain Chouraqui, Ulrike Veersma
