Abstract
Employee voice efficacy has remained at the centre of global employment relations discourse following the continuing demise of union representative voice, largely portrayed as a tendentious function of the surge of alternative voice systems (or non-unionised employee representations -NERs). Discourses pertaining to voice have equally remained contentious in the developed world and fundamentally complex to follow in the developing countries, giving the widening gap in their employment relations literatures, particularly in Nigeria’s terrain currently being investigated in this study. Thus, this research aims to identify the various voice channels through which employees are represented and to establish how participatory they are perceived by respondents. Consequently, an empirical investigation was conducted in 5 organisations across the Nigeria’s banking and ICTs sectors, via a semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 73 managers and employees altogether. Data gathered consequently were qualitatively analysed via critical discourse analytical (CDA) framework, to uncover Nigeria’s unique cultural-environmental dynamics driving the adoption of non-unionised employee voice systems by organisations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | BAM 2016 Conference Proceedings |
| Subtitle of host publication | Thriving in turbulent times |
| Publisher | British Academy of Management |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-9549608-9-6 |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Sept 2016 |
| Event | 30th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management: BAM 2016 - Newcastle, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Sept 2016 → 8 Sept 2016 https://www.bam.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=3013 |
Conference
| Conference | 30th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Newcastle |
| Period | 6/09/16 → 8/09/16 |
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