“Employee Voice is the term increasingly used to cover a whole variety of processes and structures which enable, and sometimes empower employees, directly and indirectly, to contribute to decision-making in the firm” – Boxall and Purcell, 2003.
Marchington et al (2001) have defined 4 purposes of employee voice:
- Articulation of individual dissatisfaction;
- Expression of collective organization;
- Contribution to management decision making;
- Demonstration of mutuality and cooperative relations.
Marchington et al (2001) have also identified 2 forms (or categories) of employee voice:
1.Representative participation.
- Joint Consultation – Management, Employee Representatives, Mutual Interest matter;
- Partnership schemes – Emphasize mutual gains and tackling issues in a spirit of cooperation;
- European Works Councils – EU legislation;
- Collective Representation – Employees’ interests represented by trade unions.
2. Upward Problem Solving
- Electronic Media – Intranet;
- Two way communications – face to face meetings or groups briefings.
When face-to-face communication is still considered as being the best practice for effective internal communications, new digital tools such as social media give companies the opportunity to achieve greater engagement. Indeed, even if by now, emails, the intranet and face-to-face meetings are the most used mechanisms, new tools such as blogs, microblogs, pod-/vodcasts, wikis and social networks are being more and more appreciated communication channels. Read the rest of this entry »






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