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Balancing Efficiency, Equity and Voice: The Impact of Unions and High Involvement Work Practices on Work Outcomes

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Pohler14 Balancing Efficiency.pdf (244.6 KB)
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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/118343
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Author
Pohler, Dionne
Luchak, Andrew A.
Abstract

Theory and research surrounding employee voice in organizations have often treated high-involvement work practices (HIWPs) as substitutes for unions. Drawing on recent theoretical developments in the field of industrial relations, specifically the collective voice/institutional response model of union impact and research on HIWPs in organizations, the authors propose that these institutions are better seen as complements whereby greater balance is achieved between efficiency, equity, and voice when HIWPs are implemented in the presence of unions. Based on a national sample of Canadian organizations, they find employees covered by a union experience fewer intensification pressures under higher levels of diffusion of HIWPs such that they work less unpaid overtime, have fewer grievances, and take fewer paid sick days. Job satisfaction is maximized under the combination of unions and HIWPs.

Date Issued
2014-10
Publisher
SAGE
Keywords
unions
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voice
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dual channel voice
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collective voice/institutional response
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high-involvement work practices
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work attitudes and behaviors
Related DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793914546295
Previously Published as
Pohler, D., & Luchak, A. A. (2014). Balancing efficiency, equity, and voice: The impact of unions and high-involvement work practices on work outcomes. ILR Review, 67(4), pp. 1063-1094.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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article

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