Filling the gaps: Patterns of formal and informal participation
Industrial relations scholarship has traditionally privileged union forms of employee participation. In more recent years there has been a shift to understand the role of participation in non-union firms. This article develops theory on employee participation through analysis of an Australian case s...
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| author | Townsend, K. Wilkinson, A. Burgess, John |
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| description | Industrial relations scholarship has traditionally privileged union forms of employee participation. In more recent years there has been a shift to understand the role of participation in non-union firms. This article develops theory on employee participation through analysis of an Australian case study in the hotel sector. The authors find that formal participation mechanisms are useful and essential for both employees and managers, however formal participation leaves behind gaps which are partially filled with informal voice exchanges between employees and their managers. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-264232017-09-13T15:27:37Z Filling the gaps: Patterns of formal and informal participation Townsend, K. Wilkinson, A. Burgess, John employee participation employee voice human resource management Industrial relations scholarship has traditionally privileged union forms of employee participation. In more recent years there has been a shift to understand the role of participation in non-union firms. This article develops theory on employee participation through analysis of an Australian case study in the hotel sector. The authors find that formal participation mechanisms are useful and essential for both employees and managers, however formal participation leaves behind gaps which are partially filled with informal voice exchanges between employees and their managers. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26423 10.1177/0143831X12448442 Sage Publications Ltd restricted |
| spellingShingle | employee participation employee voice human resource management Townsend, K. Wilkinson, A. Burgess, John Filling the gaps: Patterns of formal and informal participation |
| title | Filling the gaps: Patterns of formal and informal participation |
| title_full | Filling the gaps: Patterns of formal and informal participation |
| title_fullStr | Filling the gaps: Patterns of formal and informal participation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Filling the gaps: Patterns of formal and informal participation |
| title_short | Filling the gaps: Patterns of formal and informal participation |
| title_sort | filling the gaps: patterns of formal and informal participation |
| topic | employee participation employee voice human resource management |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26423 |