Employee Voice in the Global North: Insights from Europe, North America and Australia

✍ Scribed by Toyin Ajibade Adisa (editor), Chima Mordi (editor), Emeka Oruh (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Taking readers through the nature and realities of employee voice across the Global North, this book identifies the significance and effects of contexts, cultures, web and social media, and dissimilarity of institutional factors in enhancing employee voice or promoting silence. It addresses general issues affecting employee voice across the globe to give readers an understanding of employee relations that is country-specific. Readers will also have an understanding of the unique nature of employee voice in three continents – thus broadening the readers’ understanding of the subject. Covering employee voice in different countries of Europe, North America and Australasia, each chapter draws out the unique and diverse nature of employee voice in each country. The chapters discuss issues ranging from culture, activities of trade union, institutional factors, web and social media, social and organisational justice and their effects of employee voice.

This book provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers of human resources and international business. It will also be of great interest to HRM practitioners, policymakers and business managers across the globe.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
1: Introducing Employee Voice in the Global North
References
2: The Conceptualisation of Employee Voice in Permacrisis: A UK Perspective
Introduction
Organisational Behaviour and Industrial Relations Conceptualisation of Voice
Contextualising Voice During a Permacrisis
The Future of Employee Voice in the UK
Non-standard Employment
Digitalisation: Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and E-voice
Conclusions and Implications
References
3: Worker Voice in the U.S.: Unitarist and Pluralist Perspectives
Introduction
Worker Voice in the Context of Employment Relations Theory
Unitarism
Pluralism
Comparing the Two: Unitarist and Pluralist Employment Relations
Employment Relations as Team Sport: Individual Worker Voice and Organisational Beneficence
Predictors of Employee Voice in the U.S.
Outcomes of Employee Voice
Critiques of Worker Voice as Voluntary, Prosocial Behaviour
Liberty and Justice for All: Worker Voice as Industrial Democracy
Benefits of Collective Voice in the U.S.
Challenges to Collective Voice in the U.S.
Labour Law and Union Decline in the U.S.
Broader Visions of Collective Voice—Alt-Labour
Conclusion
References
4: Employee Voice and Engagement: An Assessment of Greek Organisations
Introduction
What Is Employee Voice
What Is Employee Engagement
The Greek Context
The Greek Economic Crisis and Its Effect on the Employment Relationship
Working Conditions in Greek Organisations
Employee Voice and Engagement in Greece
Conclusion
References
5: Employee Voice in Portugal: Exploring Alternative Trajectories and Channels of Voice
Introduction to the Conceptualisation of Employee Voice Trajectories
Employment Relations in Portugal
The Impact of Employment Relations Segmentation/Fragmentation on Worker Representation and Voice
Worker Voice in Platform-Based Delivery Work
Methods
Findings
Dynamics of Voice in Platform-Based Delivery in Portugal
Legal Framework for Collective Voice and Representation for Delivery Platform Workers in Portugal
Informal Voice: Using Different Voice Trajectories to Build Up Formal Voice and Institutional Representation
Formal Collective Voice: Union Representation and Strikes
Discussion and Conclusion
References
6: The Perspectives of Legal Regulations and Employee Voice: Insights from Sweden
Introduction
The Development of the Swedish Labour Law Model
Collective Bargaining
The Legal Status of Collective Agreements
Industrial Action and the Peace Obligation
Collective Employee Consultation: Codetermination
Trade Union Structure and Membership
Trade Union Duties to Members
Pursuing Employee Grievances
Individual Employee Voice: Access to Justice
Insights from Sweden
References
7: The Role of Employee Voice on Mental Health and Wellbeing: The Case of Poland
Introduction
What Is Mental Health?
The Role of Employee Voice
What Is Employee Voice and Why It Matters in the Context of Mental Health?
The Forms of Employee Voice in Contemporary Workplaces
Employee Voice in Poland
Job Quality in Poland
Employee Voice and Mental Health and Wellbeing
Theoretical Perspectives
Conclusion
References
8: Employee Voice and Social Media: The Australian Perspective
Introduction
Voice and Voice Mechanisms
Employee Voice and Dispute Resolution Under the Australian Industrial Relations System
Social Media, Trade Unions, and Voice
Coalitions, Voice, and Political Action
Conclusion
References
Australian Constitution s 51
Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022
Index