Employee Voice and Private Sector Workplace Outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004

Alex Bryson (), Rafael Gomez, Tobias Kretschmer () and P Willman

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employeevoice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationshipbetween employee voice and workplace outcomes that explains this development. As exit-voicetheory predicts, voice is associated with lower voluntary turnover, especially in the case of unionvoice. Union voice is also associated with greater workplace conflict and poorer productivity. Nonunionvoice is associated with better workplace financial performance than other voice regimes.

Keywords: employee voice; trade unions; productivity; industrial action; quits; labor-managementrelations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J51 J52 J53 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec and nep-lab
Date: 2009-04
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