Employee voice and private sector workplace outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004
Gomez, Rafael ; Bryson, Alex ; Kretschmer, Tobias ; Willman, Paul
London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance
LSE - London
2009
33 p.
labour dispute ; labour productivity ; private sector ; profitability ; workers participation ; workers representation
CEP Discussion Paper
924
Workers participation and European works councils
English
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"Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes that explains this development. As exit-voice theory predicts, voice is associated with lower voluntary turnover, especially in the case of union voice. Union voice is also associated with greater workplace conflict and poorer productivity. Nonunion voice is associated with better workplace financial performance than other voice regimes."
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