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- Title
Patterning employee voice in multinational companies.
- Authors
Lavelle, Jonathan; Gunnigle, Patrick; McDonnell, Anthony
- Abstract
Employee voice has been an enduring theme within the employment relations literature. This article profiles the incidence of a range of direct and indirect employee voice mechanisms within multinational companies (MNCs) and, using an analytical framework, identifies a number of different approaches to employee voice. Drawing from a highly representative sample of MNCs in Ireland, we point to quite a significant level of engagement with all types of employee voice, both direct and indirect. Using the analytical framework, we find that the most common approach to employee voice was an indirect voice approach (i.e. the use of trade unions and/or non-union structures of collective employee representation). The regression analysis identifies factors such as country of origin, sector, the European Union Directive on Information and Consultation and date of establishment as having varying impacts on the approaches adopted by MNCs to employee voice.
- Subjects
EMPLOYEE participation in management; PARTICIPATIVE decision making; COLLECTIVE bargaining in international business enterprises; INDUSTRIAL relations research; EMPLOYEE complaints; COMMUNICATION in industrial relations; INTERNATIONAL business enterprise employees; EUROPEAN Union
- Publication
Human Relations, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 3, p395
- ISSN
0018-7267
- Publication type
Article