Participation and Democracy at Work: Essays in Honour of Harvie Ramsay(Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisations)

Employee participation is a dynamic and contested area of organisational behaviour, attracting continuing academic, practitioner and policy interest and debate. This book will bring together a fresh, critical and comparative perspective on the full range of participation practices, drawing on the work of leading scholars in the field. It is inteded to honour the work of Harvie Ramsay, who died tragically in 2001 and who was a pioneering writer on participation and democracy in this field.

Table of Contents:
Introduction The Paradoxes of Participation; B.Harley, J.Hyman & P.Thompson Employee Involvement: Patterns and Explanations; M.Marchington Hope or Hype? High Performance Work Systems; B.Harley In the Name of Customer Service: Service Work and Participation; A.Sturdy & M.Korczynski Teamworking: Partial Participation; J.Benders Trojan Horses or Paper Tigers? Assessing the Significance of European Works Councils; M.Hall & P.Marginson Employee Share Ownership, Employment Relations and Corporate Governance; A.Pendleton Promoting Workplace Development: Lessons for UK Policy from Nordic Approaches to Job Redesign and Quality of Working Life; J.Payne & E.Keep Theorising the State and Economic Democracy; P.Boreham & R.Hall You've Got to Admit it's Getting Better: Organised Labour and Internationalisation; N.Haworth New Uniion Strategies and Forms of Work Organisation in UK Manufacturing; A.Danford Organisational Participation and Women: An Attitude Problem?; D.Scholarios & H.Ramsay Conclusion.

About the Author :
JEFF HYMAN is Professor of Management in the Business School, University of Aberdeen, UK. PAUL THOMPSON is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde, UK. BILL HARLEY is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. JEFF HYMAN is Professor of Management in the Business School, University of Aberdeen, UK. PAUL THOMPSON is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde, UK. BILL HARLEY is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.