Employee voice: bridging new terrains and disciplinary boundaries

This chapter sketches out an analysis of various academic streams and disciplines that illuminate our understanding of employee voice from these different perspectives. The authors explain how research on employee voice has gone beyond union voice and non-union voice to build a wider and deeper knowledge base and provide a guide to the debates about the different dimensions of employee voice and to the research findings in different areas. They review the meanings and purposes surrounding the definitions of voice; consider the role of key actors in the workplace; and evaluate the different forms and processes of voice in different spheres, contexts and organizational settings. They set out the contribution of the different approaches to employee voice to help extend our understanding of what goes on in the workplaces that are at the heart of modern economies.