Finding a Voice at Work? -

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Résumé :
This book offers a critical assessment of the main concepts and models of employee voice in the UK and Europe. It provides theoretical and empirical exploration of a wide range of 'voice' institutions and initiatives, including forms of representation and management techniques, and mechanisms for information and consultation

Biographie:
Stewart Johnstone, Senior Lecturer in HRM, Newcastle University Business School, Peter Ackers, Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour History, Loughborough University

Stewart Johnstone is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School and has previously been Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Loughborough University. His doctoral research investigated labour management partnership as form of employee voice in the British financial service sector. This has formed a major strand of his research for the last ten years, and he has published several journal articles and book chapters on this theme.He has also published on human resource strategy and human resource management in SMEs. He is currently Principal Investigator of a British Academy/Leverhulme funded project on the Dynamics of Employment Relations in the Recession (2013-2015), and Co-Investigator of an ERSC Seminar Series The Regulation of Work and Employment: Towards a multi-disciplinary framework (2014-2015). His teaching includes undergraduate human resource management and specialist postgraduate employment relations modules.

Peter Ackers is Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour History in the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University, UK. He studied Politics and Philosophy (PPE, including Sociology) at Lincoln College, Oxford University, followed by an MA in Industrial Relations from Warwick University. His specialist teaching is in International Employment Relations, British Social History and Business Ethics. Peter's intellectual interests centre on the sociological and historical aspects of the employment relationship and how this affects ordinary people and society at large. His work stresses the moderate, constructive character of organized labour, with themes of partnership and pluralism, and challenges Radical and Marxist theories of Industrial Relations.

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