Fearing the worst? Threat, participation and workplace productivity

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 369-398

  Forde, Chris ^a   Slater, Gary ^b   Spencer, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coercion; Cooperation; Participation; Productivity; Threat of job loss; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845516842     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X06065961     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Brown, D., R. McNabb and K. Taylor (2004) 'Do Firms Pay Efficiency Wages?', paper presented at European Association of Labour Economists Annual Conference, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 9-11 September.
2. Cooke, W. (1990) Labor-Management Cooperation: New Partnerships or Going in Circles? Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
3. Delbridge, R. and K. Whitfield (2001) 'Employee Perceptions of Job Influence and Organizational Participation', Industrial Relations 40 (3). 472-489.
4. Drago, R. (1988) 'Quality Circle Survival: An Exploratory Analysis', Industrial Relations 27 (3). 336-351.
5. Drago, R. (1996) 'Workplace Transformation and the Disposable Workplace: Employee Involvement in Australia', Industrial Relations 35 (4). 526-543.
6. Dundon, T., A. Wilkinson, M. Marchington and P. Ackers (2001) 'The Meanings and Purpose of Employee Voice', International Journal of Human Resource Management 15 (6). 1149-1170.
7. Eaton, A. (1994) 'The Survival of Employee Participation Programs in Unionised Settings', Industrial and Labour Relations Review 47 (3). 371-389.
8. Edwards, P. and M. Wright (2001) 'High-Involvement Work Systems and Performance Outcomes: The Strength of Variable, Contingent and Context-Bound Relationships', International Journal of Human Resource Management 12 (4). 568-585.
9. Forth, J. and N. Millward (2004) 'High-Involvement Management and Pay in Britain', Industrial Relations 43 (1). 98-119.
10. Frey, B. (1993) 'Shirking or Work Morale? The Impact of Regulating', European Economic Review 37 (8). 1523-1532.
11. Godard, J. (2004) 'A Critical Assessment of the High Performance Paradigm', British Journal of Industrial Relations 44 (2). 349-378.
12. Green, F. and S. McIntosh (1998) 'Union Power, Cost of Job Loss and Workers' Effort', Industrial and Labor Relations Review 51 (3). 363-383.
13. Green, F. and T. Weisskopf (1990) 'The Worker Discipline Effect: A Disaggregative Analysis', Review of Economics and Statistics 72 (2). 241-249.
14. Handel, M. and D. Levine (2004) 'Editors' Introduction: The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers', Industrial Relations 43 (1). 1-43.
15. Harley, B. (2001) 'Team Membership and the Experience of Work in Britain: An Analysis of the WERS98 Data', Work, Employment and Society 15 (4). 721-742.
16. Heller, F. (1998) 'Influence at Work: A 25-Year Program of Research', Human Relations 51 (12). 1425-1456.
17. Ichniowski, C., T. A. Kochan, D. I. Levine, C. Olson and G. Strauss (2000) 'What Works at Work: Overview and Assessment', pp. 1-37 in C. Ichniowski, D. I. Levine, C. Olson and G. Strauss (eds) The American Workplace: Skills, Compensation and Employee Involvement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18. Levine, D. I. and L. D. Tyson (1990) 'Participation, Productivity, and the Firm's Environment', pp. 183-244 in A. S. Blinder (ed.) Paying for Productivity. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
19. Machin, S. and M. Stewart (1996) 'Trade Unions and Financial Performance', Oxford Economic Papers 48 (2). 213-241.
20. Marx, K. (1976) Capital. Volume One. London: Penguin.
21. OECD (1999) 'Employment Protection and Labour Market Performance', pp. 48-132 in Employment Outlook. Paris: OECD.
22. Pendleton, A., N. Wilson and M. Wright (1998) 'The Perceptions and Effects of Share Ownership: Empirical Evidence from Employee Buy-Outs', British Journal of Industrial Relations 36 (1). 99-123.
23. Perotin, V. and A. Robinson (2000) 'Employee Participation and Equal Opportunities Practices: Productivity Effects and Potential Complementarities', British Journal of Industrial Relations 38 (4). 557-584.
24. Pil, F. K and J. P. MacDuffie (1996) 'The Adoption of High-Involvement Work Practices', Industrial Relations 35 (3). 423-455.
25. Poutsma, E., J. Hendrickx and F. Huijgen (2003) 'Employee Participation in Europe: In Search of the Participative Workplace', Economic and Industrial Democracy 24 (1). 45-76.
26. Purdon, S. and K. Pickering (2001) 'The Use of Sampling Weights in the Analysis of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey', paper prepared for the WERS1998 Dissemination Service, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London.
27. Ramsey, H., D. Scholarios and B. Harley (2000) 'Employees and High-Performance Work Systems: Testing Inside the Black Box', British Journal of Industrial Relations 38 (4). 501-531.
28. Rebitzer, J. (1988) 'Unemployment, Labor Relations, and Unit Labor Costs', American Economic Review 78 (2). 389-394.
29. Shapiro, C. and J. Stiglitz (1984) 'Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device', American Economic Review 74 (3). 433-444.
30. Spencer, D. A. (2002) 'Shirking the Issue? Efficiency Wages, Work Discipline, and Full Employment', Review of Political Economy 14 (3). 313-327.
31. Strauss, G. (1998a) 'An Overview', pp. 8-39 in F. Heller, E. Pusic, G. Strauss and B. Wilpert (eds) Organisational Participation: Myth and Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
32. Strauss, G. (1998b) 'Participation Works - If Conditions Are Appropriate', pp. 190-219 in F. Heller, E. Pusic, G. Strauss and B. Wilpert (eds) Organisational Participation: Myth and Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
33. Wadhwani, S. and M. Wall (1991) 'A Direct Test of the Efficiency Wage Model Using UK Micro-Data', Oxford Economic Papers 43 (4). 529-548.
34. Wall, T., J. Michie, M. Patterson, S. Wood, M. Sheehan, C. Clegg and M. West (2004) 'On the Validity of Subjective Measure of Company Performance', Personnel Psychology 57 (1). 95-118.
35. Weisskopf, T. (1987) 'The Effect of Unemployment on Labour Productivity', International Review of Applied Economics 1 (2). 127-151.
36. Weisskopf, T., S. Bowles and D. Gordon (1983) 'Hearts and Minds: A Social Model of US Productivity Growth', Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2: 381-450.
37. Wood, S. (1999) 'Human Resource Management and Performance', International Journal of Management Reviews 1 (4). 367-413.