Explain What Is Meant by Employee Voice and the Main Motivation for Establishing Mechanisms for Voice in the Work Place.
Question 6: EXPLAIN WHAT IS MEANT BY EMPLOYEE VOICE AND THE MAIN MOTIVATION FOR ESTABLISHING MECHANISMS FOR VOICE IN THE WORK PLACE.
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Introduction
“Collective voice achieves what a lone voice could never do”. Collective representation is also the foundation of a partnership relationship between employers, employees and unions that bring positive benefits for the business (Prosser, 2001).
Throughout the twentieth century collective bargaining was the most significant means of regularity relationships in UK between employers and employees via trade union. In continental Europe there is more emphasis on employee voice having some role in the practice of management. As defined by Boxall and Purcell (2003):” Employee voice is the term increasingly used to cover a whole variety of process and structures which enable, and sometimes empower employees, directly and indirectly, to contribute to decision making in the firm”.
This essay will be focusing on the key areas such as Meaning and Purpose of employee voice, different types of employee voice, the frame work of employee voice, mechanisms, benefits and the impact of employee voice on unionised and non-unionised organisations. Meaning of Employee Voice
Voice is a term that has been more widely used in the practitioner and academic literature on Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in recent years (Breadwell 1998, Sako1998, Benson2000: Roche, 2000).
According to Hirschman’s classic study (1970) of African railways, he said that voice is an option for customers in a context of how organisations respond to decline, since then the term as been used in different applications. But Freeman and Medoff (1984) argued that it would be better for both the employer and employee to have a voice mechanism.
Employee voice is said to be a two way communication process between the
MA Human Resource Management
Introduction
“Collective voice achieves what a lone voice could never do”. Collective representation is also the foundation of a partnership relationship between employers, employees and unions that bring positive benefits for the business (Prosser, 2001).
Throughout the twentieth century collective bargaining was the most significant means of regularity relationships in UK between employers and employees via trade union. In continental Europe there is more emphasis on employee voice having some role in the practice of management. As defined by Boxall and Purcell (2003):” Employee voice is the term increasingly used to cover a whole variety of process and structures which enable, and sometimes empower employees, directly and indirectly, to contribute to decision making in the firm”.
This essay will be focusing on the key areas such as Meaning and Purpose of employee voice, different types of employee voice, the frame work of employee voice, mechanisms, benefits and the impact of employee voice on unionised and non-unionised organisations. Meaning of Employee Voice
Voice is a term that has been more widely used in the practitioner and academic literature on Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in recent years (Breadwell 1998, Sako1998, Benson2000: Roche, 2000).
According to Hirschman’s classic study (1970) of African railways, he said that voice is an option for customers in a context of how organisations respond to decline, since then the term as been used in different applications. But Freeman and Medoff (1984) argued that it would be better for both the employer and employee to have a voice mechanism.
Employee voice is said to be a two way communication process between the
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