Dundon, T., Wilkinson, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-7231-2861 and Ackers, P. (2023) Mapping employee involvement and participation in institutional context : Mick Marchington's applied pluralist contributions to human resource management research methods, theory and policy. Human Resource Management Journal, 33 (3). pp. 551-563. ISSN 0954-5395
Abstract
Our paper examines how the work of Mick Marchington integrated older forms of employee participation with newer patterns of employee involvement. The paper shows how Employee Involvement and Participation (EIP) is central to contemporary Human Resource Management (HRM) in four distinct ways: first is the ‘theoretical’ integration of pluralism into newer HRM approaches; second is the ‘practical’ insights gained from what was happening at organisational level; third is the contributions to ongoing ‘policy debates’ about fair work; and finally, his emphasis on ‘context-sensitive methods’ link macro, meso and micro developments. We refer to three specific projects and related periods: a Department of Employment funded project during the late 1980s and early 1990s which developed the waves and escalator concepts of EIP; a Chartered Institute of Personnel Development project concerned with employee voice and management choice in the 2000s, which gave insight to multiple meanings of EIP and strategic choice; and research concerned with the notion of fair voice from comparative cases studies across different liberal market economies from 2008 onwards. By reflecting on these research projects and periods we present a potential framework that offers continued longevity for the future study of HRM.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Human Resource Management Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | employee involvement; employee involvement and participation; employee voice; HR profession; participation; pluralist HRM; qualitative |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2022 11:15 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2024 15:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1748-8583.12461 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188952 |