Workplace partnership and employee involvement – contradictions and synergies: evidence from a heavy engineering case study/
Butler, Peter
Workplace partnership and employee involvement – contradictions and synergies: evidence from a heavy engineering case study/ created by Peter Butler, Olga Tregaskis and Linda Glover - Economic and industrial democracy Volume 34, number 1 .
This article considers the workplace partnership–employee involvement nexus. While an empirical association has been recorded, there has been limited exploration of the potential benefits to be derived from the coupling of these interventions. Developing the idea of forward and reverse synergies this article argues the relationship is complex. The tendency for partnership to act as an antecedent for the utilization of employee involvement and wider organizational change has been documented – forward synergy. However, the reverse scenario, where involvement is used by management to initiate and subsequently bolster workplace cooperation and consensus has received far less scrutiny. This article seeks to shed light on both phenomena.
0143831X
HD5650 EID
Workplace partnership and employee involvement – contradictions and synergies: evidence from a heavy engineering case study/ created by Peter Butler, Olga Tregaskis and Linda Glover - Economic and industrial democracy Volume 34, number 1 .
This article considers the workplace partnership–employee involvement nexus. While an empirical association has been recorded, there has been limited exploration of the potential benefits to be derived from the coupling of these interventions. Developing the idea of forward and reverse synergies this article argues the relationship is complex. The tendency for partnership to act as an antecedent for the utilization of employee involvement and wider organizational change has been documented – forward synergy. However, the reverse scenario, where involvement is used by management to initiate and subsequently bolster workplace cooperation and consensus has received far less scrutiny. This article seeks to shed light on both phenomena.
0143831X
HD5650 EID