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  • Explaining Breadth and Depth of Employee Voice across Firms: A Voice Factor Demand Model

    Author(s)
    Kaufman, BE
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Kaufman, Bruce
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    This paper develops a model which explains breadth and depth of firms' demand for employee voice. The theory innovation is to model employee voice as a factor input in production and derive a voice demand curve. Differences in voice productivity determinants across firms act as shift factors and cause cross-section variation in voice demand curves which translates into an empirically observable voice frequency distribution. Insights from institutional economics are incorporated to show that transition from a nonunion to union form of voice may cause a large discontinuity in the demand curve. Other contributions include: ...
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    This paper develops a model which explains breadth and depth of firms' demand for employee voice. The theory innovation is to model employee voice as a factor input in production and derive a voice demand curve. Differences in voice productivity determinants across firms act as shift factors and cause cross-section variation in voice demand curves which translates into an empirically observable voice frequency distribution. Insights from institutional economics are incorporated to show that transition from a nonunion to union form of voice may cause a large discontinuity in the demand curve. Other contributions include: sharpened definition and delineation of the employee voice construct, use of the voice frequency distribution as a dependent variable in empirical research, graphical representation of the firm's benefit-cost choice of voice, distinction between employee voice as communication and influence (muscle) and graphical demonstration of conditions under which one is preferred to the other, clarification of the participation/representation gap concept, and policy insights regarding pros and cons of the regulation of employee voice in American labor law.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Labor Research
    Volume
    35
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-014-9185-5
    Subject
    Human Resources Management
    Business and Management
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/63890
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