Table of Contents

Mike Emmott (CIPD): Foreword
1: Stewart Johnstone & Peter Ackers: Introduction: Employee Voice: The Key Question for Contemporary Employment Relations
PART ONE: KEY CONCEPTS
2: Edmund Heery: Frames of Reference & Worker Participation
3: David Guest: Voice & Employee Engagement
4: Anne-marie Greene: Voice & Workforce Diversity
PART TWO: UNION VOICE - COMPETING STRATEGIES
5: Peter Ackers: Trade Unions as Professional Associations
6: Melanie Simms: Union organizing as an alternative to Partnership. Or what to do when employers can't keep their side of the bargain
7: Stewart Johnstone: The case for Workplace Partnership
PART THREE: EUROPEAN MODELS & VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
8: Peter Samuel and Nick Bacon: Social partnership in devolved nations: Scotland and Wales
9: Michael Gold & Ingrid Artus: Employee Participation in Germany: Tensions and Challenges
10: Andrew Timming & Michael Whittall: The Promise of European Works Councils: 20 years of Statutory Employee Voice
11: Tony Dobbins & Tony Dundon: The EU Information and Consultation Directive in liberal-market economies
PART FOUR: LOOKING AHEAD
12: Richard Hyman: Making Voice Effective: Imagining Trade Union responses to an era of post-Industrial Democracy
13: Bruce E.Kaufman: The future of employee voice in the USA: predictions from an employment relations model of voice

About the Author

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.

Reviews

The analysis is detailed and clear, and there are nice thematic links and relationships between the chapters. The competing unitary/pluralist, organizing/partnership analytic perspectives are developed to good effect through the chapters, as is the discussion about voice in relation to Hall and Soskices varieties of capitalism. This overlap across the chapters, and the different viewpoints expressed in them, is useful for stimulating thought. The writing style should be relatively easy for students to digest, and certainly some of the chapters would be ideal for undergraduate teaching material. On this basis, the book would be an excellent library resource for those researching, teaching or learning about employment relations and voice.
*Clare Mumford, Personnel Review*

There are now a lot of voices in the employee voice field. Finding a Voice at Work? stands out by bringing together an accomplished set of authors to provide diverse perspectives in a single book. From conceptual foundations to debates over British trade union strategies to perspectives from Europe and beyond, the stimulating chapters deepen the readers understanding of the fundamental question, why does workplace voice matter and which versions work best? I highly recommend this insightful collection.
*Professor John W. Budd, University of Minnesota*

This book offers important and novel insights into work and employment relations. It is essential reading for those interested in such vital workplace issues as: unions, voice, communications, performance, consultation, participation, employee involvement, and engagement.
*Professor Greg Bamber, Monash University, co-editor of International & Comparative Employment Relations*

Finding a Voice at Work? will no doubt become a benchmark text for all those researching and teaching the changing nature of employment relations. With an impressive list of leading contributors, the book examines the key question of why voice still matters for employment relations and society from a conceptual, empirical and comparative standpoint. It offers a sharp and compelling analysis for why employee voice should be at the centre of public policy debate.
*Professor Mark Stuart, Director of CERIC and Montague Burton Professor of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, University of Leeds*