Table of Contents

Contents:

Part I Perspectives and Theories of Voice –
1. Employee voice: bridging new terrains and disciplinary boundaries
Adrian Wilkinson, Tony Dundon, Jimmy Donaghey and Richard Freeman
2 Employee voice before Hirschman: its early history, conceptualization, and
practice
Bruce E. Kaufman
3 Hirschman and voice
Matthew M.C. Allen
4 Employee voice and the transaction cost economics project
Paul Willman, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tobias Kretschmer
5 Industrial democracy in the twenty-first century
Catherine Casey
6 Labour process
Abigail Marks and Shiona Chillas
7 Employee voice and silence in organizational behavior
Chad T. Brinsfield and Marissa Edwards

PART II ACTORS
8 Managing voice: an employers perpective
Peter Holland
9 Line managers
Keith Townsend and Paula Mowbray
10 Union voice
Sarah Kaine
11 The missing employee in employee voice research
Dionne M. Pohler, Andrew A. Luchak, & J.M. Harmer
12 The expression of worker voice through civil society organizations
Edmund Heery and Stephen Williams)
13 Employee Voice and Democracy: A Critique of National and Transnational Laws
Glenn Patmore

PART III Voice PROCESSES
14 Collective bargaining
Virginia Doellgast and Chiara Benassi
15 Works councils
Werner Nienhüser
16 Joint consultative committees
Amanda Pyman
17 Individual voice: grievance and other procedures
David Lewin
18 High performance work systems and employee voice .
Bill Harley
19 Task-based voice and teamworking
Stephen Procter , Jos Benders and Jonas Ingvaldesen
20 Workplace partnership
Stewart Johnstone
21 Voice in the mutual gains organization
Ariel C. Avgar Stacey Sekwao ,Phoebe Strom
22 Non-union employee representation
Tony Dobbins and Tony Dundon
23 Employee and Collective Voice Engagement: Being psychologicallypresent when speaking up at work
Jamie A. Gruman and Alan M. Saks
24 Individual Voice in Informal and Formal Contexts in Organizations.
Deirdre O’Shea and Kevin Murphy
25 Whistleblowing.
Kate Kenny, Wim Vandekerckhov and Muhammad Irfan

PART IV EVALUATING VOICE
26. Voice across borders: comparing and explaining the dynamic of participation in a context of change
Maria González Menéndez and Miguel Martínez Lucio
27 Employee silence
Niall Cullinane and Jimmy Donaghey
28 Diversity management and missing voices
Jawad Syed
29 The Internet, the Web and Social Media: the promise and practice of E-Voice
Louise Thornthwaite, Craig Macmillan and Alison Barnes
30. Charting Voice in a developing economy: the case of China
Jenny Chan

PART V Future Directions on voice
31. Workplace Voice: Assessing Its Impact on the Individual and the Organization 
Brian Klaas.
32 Integrating voice : Voice Within Hospitals: Reciprocal Relationship Between Employee Voice Related to Patient Care with Working Conditions Voice
Adrian Wilkinson , Michael Barry Paula Mowbray and Ariel Avgar
33 The future of employee voice
Senia Kalfa and John W. Budd

Index

About the Author

Edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Professor of Human Resource Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Jimmy Donaghey, Professor of Human Resource Management, UniSA Business School, University of South Australia, Australia, Tony Dundon, Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, University of Limerick, Ireland and the Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester, UK and Richard B. Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research, US

Reviews

'This superb collection of chapters on employee voice represents the cutting edge of research in this area. The authors are leading international authorities in the field and the insights they share will be valuable to scholars, practitioners and students alike.'
--Andrew R. Timming, The University of Western Australia'This book provides an intelligent and thoughtful account of employee voice and employee silence from a range of different academic perspectives. It stretches from historical accounts to thoughts for the future, all supported by an impressive number of empirically robust and theoretically rich accounts of current practice. It is an outstanding and timely work and is sure to be a must-read for anyone studying or conducting research in the area.'
--Irena Grugulis, University of Leeds, UK