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Channels of employee voice: complementary or competing for space?

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  • Christina McCloskey
  • Anthony McDonnell

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This article identifies the existence of employee voice channels and examines how they interact within the context of an overall organisational voice system. In so doing, we can better appreciate the disparities between the micro†level reality and macro†level rhetoric of employee voice for highly skilled employees in the knowledge intensive sector. Drawing on an instrumental, inductive case study involving managers and, most notably, employees, the research finds that the plurality of mechanisms provided for voice appears to cause some confusion that leads to a neglect of certain channels and others competing for attention. This raises the issue, which has not received attention thus far, as to whether the availability of multiple voice channels can have counter†productive effects whereby they start to compete with rather than complement each other.

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  • Christina McCloskey & Anthony McDonnell, 2018. "Channels of employee voice: complementary or competing for space?," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(2), pages 174-193, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:indrel:v:49:y:2018:i:2:p:174-193
    DOI: 10.1111/irj.12209
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    1. Della Torre, Edoardo, 2019. "Collective voice mechanisms, HRM practices and organizational performance in Italian manufacturing firms," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 398-410.
    2. Jimmy Donaghey & Niall Cullinane & Tony Dundon & Tony Dobbins & Eugene Hickland, 2022. "Employee choice of voice and non‐union worker representation," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(6), pages 503-522, November.

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