Consultation at Work
Regulation and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 11. October 2012
226 pages
978-0-19-164014-8 (ISBN)
Description
The book examines the origins of consultation, and the current changing approaches of the EU, UK governments, employers, and union bodies to the regulation of this aspect of employment relations. Particular attention is paid to the implementation of the new EU Directive on the Information and Consultation of Employees.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1. Consultation at Work: Competing Agendas, Differing Expectations
- What is consultation?
- Lessons from history
- Early examples of management style and union substitution
- Consultation in times of war: expansion and controversy
- The post-war retreat and possible resurgence of consultation
- Consultation in a period of union decline
- Conclusion
- 2. Justifications for Consultation
- The language of consultation, participation, and involvement
- The pursuit of efficiency through consultation
- Access to top management
- Improving the quality of decisions
- Contribution to the management of change
- Inculcation of participative management style
- Providing an effective means for handling grievances and complaints
- Improving employee engagement and commitment
- Consultation as power-sharing
- Consultation as an employee right
- Conclusion
- 3. Legislating for Employee Consultation: The Significance of EU-Level Regulation
- The evolution of EU intervention
- Rationales for regulation
- Different sources of regulation, different outcomes
- New approaches to EU regulation
- Revised collective redundancies directive
- European Works Councils directive
- European Company Statute and linked employee involvement directive
- The road to the information and consultation directive
- Regulation by the social partners?
- Commission proposal
- Views of the social partners
- Position of the UK government
- Legislative process
- Subsequent EU measures
- Conclusion
- 4. Half-Hearted Regulation in the United Kingdom
- The legacy of the Bullock debate
- Key stages in the evolution of UK consultation legislation
- Issue-specific consultation
- Workforce-wide consultation rights versus single channel
- UK implementation of the information and consultation directive
- Assessment of the ICE regulations
- Conclusion
- 5. The Take-up and Impact of Statutory Consultation
- The WERS 2004 benchmark
- Implications of legislative design
- Reflexive implementation
- Experience and lessons of directly applicable consultation rights
- Impact of the ICE regulations-legislatively prompted voluntarism?
- Quantitative impact
- Patterns of employer, employee, and union engagement with the regulations
- Enforcement and case law
- Case study evidence
- Conclusion
- 6. The Practice of Consultation
- The component characteristics of effective consultation
- Degree of involvement
- Scope of decisions
- Level of consultation
- The form of consultation and involvement
- The organizing capacity of employee representatives
- A culture of cooperation
- Conclusion
- 7. The Dynamics of Consultation
- Case histories in active consultation
- Case history-From union avoidance to highly developed consultation with agreed outcomes: mobile phone company
- Case history-Active consultation over redundancies and restructuring: diversified technology
- Case history-Active consultation prompted by representatives' growing assertiveness: regional charity
- Case history-Building an effective consultative body via a negotiated agreement: IT services
- Consultation limited to communication
- Case history-Consultation as a communication bridge with staff: urban housing
- Case history-Failing to find a distinctive voice: regional airport
- Case history-Crowded out and largely irrelevant: the staff council at hospice
- Failed consultation: a staff council that became defunct
- Case history-A short-lived experiment in collective consultation: electronics company
- Conclusion
- 8. The Future of Consultation
- Why consultation is important
- Regulating consultation-a story of missed opportunities
- What lessons can be learnt from consultation practices in other countries?
- Countries with long-established consultation arrangements: the example of Germany
- Responses to the directive elsewhere in the EU
- Lessons from European experience
- Reforming the regulations: an agenda for promoting active consultation
- The future of consultation
- Appendix: IRRU-Led Research Project on the Impact of the ICE Regulations
- References
- Author Index
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