Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Employee Voice (What is employee voice? (Why worry about employee voice?…

- - - - Employee voice influences:
      - – Violence at community level (negatively)
      - – Levels of unrest and corruption at country level (negatively)
      - – Level of peace (positively)
      - – Attitudes and behaviours of employees both within and
      - outside the organisation
      - § Modern reality of employee voice
      - – The majority feel unsafe to exercise their voice, even on
      - important concerns such as fraud, sexual harassment,
      - medical negligence, product defects, and safety violations
      - – As most workplaces are hierarchies limited protection is
      - provided for employees
      - – Employees remain silent due to the belief that their input will
      - be ignored or will not make a tangible difference
- - - - § While advocating a democratic values for the governance
      - of society, most organisations located within democracies
      - do not advocate the same approach for the governance
      - of themselves
      - § Increase in institutional shareholders (e.g. investment
      - companies) and concurrent decline of organised labour
      - (e.g. unions) has resulted in declining employee voice
      - § Legislative frameworks that places the interests of
      - shareholders (i.e. owners) above all other stakeholders
      - on average reduces opportunities for employee voice
      - § Opportunities available for managers to encourage
      - employee voice by citing potential benefits for
      - shareholders in the eyes of the law
      - § Policy makers should consider developing legislation
      - pertaining to organisations that provides flexibility for
      - organisational decision-makers to think beyond
      - shareholders