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Workplace partnership and employee involvement – contradictions and synergies: evidence from a heavy engineering case study/ created by Peter Butler, Olga Tregaskis and Linda Glover

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Economic and industrial democracy ; Volume 34, number 1Los Angeles: Sage, 2013Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISSN:
  • 0143831X
LOC classification:
  • HD5650 EID
Online resources: Abstract: 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.
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Journal Article Journal Article Main Library - Special Collections HD5650 EID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 34, no.1 (pages 5-24) SP16925 Not for loan For In House Use Only

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.

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