Normative Underpinnings of Direct Employee Participation Studies and Implications for Developing Ethical Reflexivity: A Multidisciplinary Review

George Kandathil () and Jerome Joseph ()
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George Kandathil: Indian Institute of Management
Jerome Joseph: XLRI – Xavier School of Management

Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, vol. 157, issue 3, No 7, 685-697

Abstract: Abstract This paper seeks to join studies which have drawn attention to the ethical reflexivity of research and the research enterprise in the organisational studies’ field. Towards this end, we review OB, HRM, and IR studies on direct employee participation in organisations post-1990s to examine their normative underpinnings. Using Fox’s (Industrial sociology and industrial relations. Research Paper 3, Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers’ Associations, HMSO, London, 1966, Beyond contract: Work, power and trust relations. Faber and Faber, London, 1974) three frames—unitarist, pluralist, and radical—we compare the underpinnings within and across the chosen disciplines to bring ethical reflexivity to studies in this area of inquiry. Implications are drawn out to take forward the quest for more ethically reflexive employee participation research.

Keywords: Direct participation; Ethically reflexive research; Frame of reference; Multidisciplinary review; Normative underpinnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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