Partnership with and without trade unions in the UK financial services: filling or fuelling the representation gap?
Tailby, Stephanie ; Richardson, Mike ; Upchurch, Martin ; Danford, Andy ; Stewart, Paul
2007
38
3
May
210-228
financial sector ; statistics ; trade union role ; workers participation ; workers representation
Workers participation and European works councils
English
Bibliogr.
"Partnership theory proposes that an appropriate integration of direct and indirect employee participation mutually benefits the workers and the company. This study explores the putative employee voice gains and the risks for union effectiveness by comparing employees' evaluation of partnership practices at two financial service companies with non-union and union employee representation, respectively."
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