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Title
Am I 'boverred'?: voice structures and related employee attitudes in call centres
Author/Creator
McDonnell, Anthony;  Hannif, Zeenobiyah;  Connell, Julia;  Burgess, John
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Business & Law, Newcastle Business School
Description
Call centres now represent an emerging business activity across the developed and developing world. This paper explores the forms of employee voice being utilised in Australian call centres and the issues on which employees have a voice over. The paper also examines employee attitudes towards these mechanisms and the level of involvement or consultation they possess. Utilising questionnaires and focus groups from ten call centres, we find that direct employee voice channels are the most common form but that these do not tend to be formalised structures. Employees tend to be content with the status quo in this regard with hostility rather than engagement being expressed towards being represented by trade unions.
Relation
Work in Progress: Crises, Choices and Continuity: 24th AIRAANZ Conference (AIRAANZ 2010). Work in Progress: Crises, Choices and Continuity: Proceedings of the 24th Conference Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ 2010) (Sydney 3-5 February, 2010)
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http://www.airaanz.org/2010-conference-main.html
Date
2010
Publisher
University of Western Sydney
Keyword(s)
call centres;  employee voice channels;  employee attitudes
Resource Type
conference paper
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/934936
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ISBN:9780980608526
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