Employee Voice

What is Employee Voice?

Provide opportunities for employee to exercise voice

Increasingly be part of the organization

Informal and discretionary communication

Supplying:

Ideas

Suggestions

Concerns

Information about problems

To people who may take action with the intent of improvement/change

Why Worry about Employee Voice

Effect of Employee Voice In the Workplace

Effects of Employee Voice Outside the Workplace (Spill-over effect)

Employee Voice Influences:

Negative:

Violence at community level

Levels of unrest and corruption at country level

Positive:

Level of peace

Modern reality of employee voice

Majority feel unsafe

Limited Protection for employees

Fear of being ignored

Perceptions of Procedural Justice

Perceptions of Self-Efficacy and Self-Control

Cognitive Dissonance

Feelings of helplessness, apathy and anger

Community Engagement

Affective States

Cognitive States

Behavioural States

Opportunities for self-direction

Increases community engagement

The more use of employee voice, the more motivated and therefore more satisfied

Those who lack employee voice may feel demotivated to work

Legal Framworks

Policies that promote employee welfare and peaceful communities

Democracy vs. Dictatorship

Allow employee inputs viewed more positively by employees

Increased awareness of employees and their interests

Beliefs and behaviours are inconsistent

Lack of employee input may lead to increases in turnover rate

Provide more opportunities with exercising voice

Fear of consequences to voice up

Apathy - Doesn't really bother what happens because they think that no impact would be made

Lack of opportunities to exercising voice may lead to decline in motivation, dissatisfaction, physical or psychological withdrawal

Characteristics:

Employees are voicing with the intent of helping their unit or the organization

Voicing because they do not have the power to implement a suggestion or solve a problem on their own and thus have to voice their ideas or concerns, usually to someone higher than they are in the organizational hierarchy

Decision to voice one’s concerns is discretionary, meaning that employees can choose to be silent about their concerns or ideas

Decline in employee voice

voice when legislative framework places interest on shareholders above all other skatesholders

Increase in institutional shareholders and concurrent decline of organised labour

Voice opportunities impact employee cognitive states

Voice opportunities impact employee behavioral states