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Sound of Silence |
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Written by Alex Bryson
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Saturday, 06 May 2006 |
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Willman, P., Bryson, A. and Gomez, R. (2006) ‘The Sound of Silence: Which Employers Choose ‘no voice’ and why?’, Socio-Economic Review, 4: 283-299 Whether employees have ‘voice’ at work is determined, in large part, by employers’ decisions as to whether to adopt a ‘voice’ regime. In Britain during the 1980s and 1990s, the employer’s decision was largely unconstrained by the law. Under these conditions, we argue that whether an employer adopts a voice regime turns on employers’ perceptions of the net benefits of worker voice to the firm. This is confirmed in empirical analyses which point to independent associations between ‘no voice’ and workplace size, organisational complexity, industrial sector, and workforce composition. We show that the size and composition of the ‘no voice’ sector has remained fairly constant over the past two decades.
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