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Employee Wellbeing
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Employee Wellbeing

by Pooja Vishwanathan
September 2024
Beginner
226 pages
7h 48m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 3 The Use and Misuse of Employee Voice

DOI: 10.4324/9781032705125-3

3.1 Understanding Employee Voice

The coining and the emergence of the ‘employee voice’ theme trace back to the ‘exit-voice-loyalty’ theory proposed by Hirschman (1970), which whilst focusing on customers (not employees) stated that ‘dissatisfied customers could either decide to exit or “voice” when faced with an objectionable state of affairs’. Farrel (1983) later applied this to employees as organisational stakeholders. With varying definitions across diverse contexts, ‘employee voice’ has been broadly understood as ‘the ability of employees to express their views, opinions, concerns and suggestions and for these to influence decisions at work’ (CIPD, 2023; Nechanska, ...

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