Adrian Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4013264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7231-2861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Amplifying Employee Voice? Situating Social Media in the Organisational Voice System
In today's digitised workplace, it is important to understand how employee voice is affected by new technologies. Adopting a novel interdisciplinary approach, this paper uses the Escalator of Participation framework and the Technology Affordance lens to explore how modern communication technology, such as social media (SM), compares to traditional voice mechanisms. Findings from 52 in‐depth interviews of managers and employees from two multinatio…
Frames of Reference: Dynamics of Change and Frame Misalignment Between Employers and Unions
Industrial relations studies have struggled to explain the variations in human resource (HR) practices in firms operating in the same institutional contexts and sectors and facing similar market pressures. Budd, Pohler, and Huang's (2021) model on the frames of reference used by managers and employees constitutes a notable exception, as it focuses on how actors view HR practices. We build on this model and critique and extend it by including unio…
Using social network analysis to understand the impact of systems integration efforts: A case study from Thunder Bay
Over the past two decades Canadian municipalities have seen the emergence of formalised systems-level collaborative approaches to addressing homelessness and housing issues. The implementation of such approaches has been widespread and to some extent standardised by the Canadian (federal) government through the mandated formation of ‘community advisory boards’ (CABs) and their associated ‘Community Entities (CEs) which direct the use of federal h…
Comparative impacts of the Covid ‐19 pandemic on work and employment—Why industrial relations institutions matter
This introduction assesses the international impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on work and employment. It outlines conceptually why industrial relations institutions matter for shaping policy choices across different countries. This includes countries in the Global South that are not covered by conventional varieties of capitalism theories. An important focus is what IR institutions and policies played a protective role in the decommodification of…
Missing voices? Integrating worker voice and social dialogue in the platform economy
This chapter highlights the variation in gig work and the different types of digital labour platforms, to show there are significant societal issues that need to be grappled with to ensure that this growing group of workers are not disadvantaged. Freedom of association, voice and representation are often contextualised as 'human rights', set against transitional labour standards and UN sustainability goals. Yet how those who work through digital …
Old frames and new lenses: Frames of reference revisited
The ‘frames of reference’ concept has been a significant and enduring feature of industrial/employment relations since being developed by Alan Fox; and yet there has been only limited scholarly research seeking to develop the frames. We introduce this special issue by reviewing the extant literature on frames which provides a backdrop to the five article contributions that explore the frames in both new and historical light. The special issues as…
Using unitarist, pluralist, and radical frames to map the cross-section distribution of employment relations across workplaces: A four-country empirical investigation of patterns and determinants
The frames of reference model developed by Fox, and extended by a number of other authors, is arguably the central paradigm framework in the employment/industrial relations field. Despite its importance and popularity, use of frames of reference to structure empirical analysis and develop hypotheses is relatively rare and, to the best of our knowledge, the framework and its key constructs and principles have themselves never been empirically exam…
The role of peer‐to‐peer voice in severe work environments: Organisational facilitators and barriers
Encouraging and facilitating employee voice among frontline employees is important in organisations to draw out problems and issues that can potentially be addressed and mitigated by organisational policies and practices. Using Conservation of Resources theory, this study focuses on paramedics and the formal and informal voice mechanisms used to safeguard their well‐being. We observe that paramedics are often unwilling to use formal support mecha…
Handbook of Research on Employee Voice
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The Future of Work and Employment
This cutting-edge book charts the latest ideas and concepts in employment relations research. Mapping out the intellectual boundaries of the field, The Future of Work and Employment outlines the key research and policy outcomes for work and employment in the age of digitisation and artificial intelligence
The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations
Comprising five thematic sections, this volume provides a critical, international and interdisciplinary exploration of employment relations. It examines the major subjects and emerging areas within the field, including essays on institutional theory, voice, new actors, precarious work and employment. Led by a well-respected team of editors, the contributors examine current knowledge and debates within each topic, offering cutting-edge analysis an…
Routledge Companion to Employment Relations
The digital society and provision of welfare services
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to: first, explain why a new model of the provision of welfare services to citizens arises from the digital society; second explore some core elements of the competition between the new model of the provision of welfare services and the classic ideal model of the professionals’ provision of welfare services; third, suggest why it is most likely that the two models of the provision of services are combined into…
Global supply chains and social relations at work: Brokering across boundaries
Global supply chains are not just instruments for the exchange of economic goods and flow of capital across borders. They also connect people in unprecedented ways across social and cultural boundaries and have created new, interrelated webs of social relationships that are socially embedded. However, most of the existing theories of work are mainly based at the level of the corporation, not on the network of relations that interlink them, and ho…
The Academic Game: Compliance and Resistance in Universities
This article draws on the sociology of Bourdieu to explore how academics respond to managerialist imperatives. Bourdieu's metaphor of the game is applied to a case study of a regional Australian university, which underwent significant changes in 2007, the most notable being the introduction of performance appraisals. In-depth interviews (N=20) reveal evidence of symbolic violence: staff compliance with and complicity in the changes. This is evide…
Management and Modernity
This chapter treats Modernity as a cultural and social project of modernization that involves bringing as many aspects of human existence as possible under the control of rational processes of knowledge and practice. Management is thus at the heart of this project as it is a means to the end of establishing rational order through design, classification, and intervention. The chapter begins by looking at how formal theories of administration have …
Global trends and crises, comparative capitalism and HRM
This article reviews and consolidates the most recent literature on comparative institutional analysis, and links this to endemic crises, continuities, bounded diversity and change in HRM practice within and between nations. It is argued that national institutional arrangements both support and sustain particular sets of HR practice, but this is always contingent, and subject to the choices of actors: firms adopt practices both to take advantages…
The Oxford Handbook of Management
The purpose of this handbook is to analyse and explore the evolution of management: the core functions and how they may have changed; its position in the culture/zeitgeist of modern society; the institutions and ideologies that support it; and likely challenges and changes in the future. We then ask whether the twentieth century was the ‘golden age’ of the corporate, bureaucratic manager and if so what we might expect in the future. And if this w…
Handbook of Research on Managing Managers
Double-breasting employee voice: An assessment of motives, arrangements and durability
This article explores employee voice within the specific institutional arrangement of double-breasting. Double-breasting is when multi-plant organizations recognize trade unions in some company sites, with non-union arrangements at other company plants, or where a unionized firm acquires a new site that it then operates on a non-union basis. We examine three research questions in four separate case study organizations that operate employee voice …
The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems
There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional 'silos', such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties of capitalism, with limited dialogue between different approaches to enhance understanding of institutional effects. Again, evaluations of the relation…
Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems
Varieties of Capitalism and Investments in Human Capital
This paper explores the relationship between national institutional archetypes and investments in training and development. A recent trend within the literature on comparative capitalism has been to explore the nature and extent of heterogeneity within the coordinated market economies (CMEs) of Europe. Based on a review of the existing comparative literature on training and development, and comparative firm‐level survey evidence of differences in…
Oxford handbook of participation in organizations
Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization. This handbook looks at the different arguments and schools of thought, with the aim of analysing them, not just in terms of implementation but also principles.
The Future of Employment Relations: New Paradigms, New Developments
EPUB
The Academic Game: Compliance and Resistance in Universities
This article draws on the sociology of Bourdieu to explore how academics respond to managerialist imperatives. Bourdieu's metaphor of the game is applied to a case study of a regional Australian university, which underwent significant changes in 2007, the most notable being the introduction of performance appraisals. In-depth interviews (N=20) reveal evidence of symbolic violence: staff compliance with and complicity in the changes. This is evide…
Reconceptualising employee silence: Problems and Prognosis
A growing literature has emerged on employee silence, located within the field of organisational behaviour. Scholars have investigated when and how employees articulate voice and when and how they will opt for silence. While offering many insights, this analysis is inherently one-sided in its interpretation of silence as a product of employee motivations. An alternative reading of silence is offered which focuses on the role of management. Using …
Remember I'm the bloody architect: Architects, organizations and discourses of profession
There is a growing consensus that professional work faces an uncertain future. However, debates have tended to take a macro focus, underplaying the role of individuals' accounts of their working lives. In this article we focus on UK architecture, examining how public-sector and private-sector architects construct the purpose and process of their occupation, applying the concept of discourse to explore and explicate the different versions expresse…
Cultural Control and the 'Culture Manager: Employment Practices in a Consultancy
This article explores the use of 'company culture' as a means of management control. It reports on research conducted in a consultancy that aimed to secure loyalty from its employees through a conscious policy of organised 'play' at company socials. Employees were given a certain amount of freedom over their working lives in exchange for accepting company regulation of their social time. Here it is argued that this normative control differs from …
New approaches to employee voice and participation in organizations
While the history of employee voice and participation is longstanding, there has been a sharp increase in interest in these topics among academics, practitioners, and policy-makers in recent years. The research on employee voice and participation has therefore significantly broadened, expanding from an earlier institutional focus to also include significant behavioural and strategic streams. This article introduces a symposium that extends our kn…
Global supply chains and social relations at work: Brokering across boundaries
Global supply chains are not just instruments for the exchange of economic goods and flow of capital across borders. They also connect people in unprecedented ways across social and cultural boundaries and have created new, interrelated webs of social relationships that are socially embedded. However, most of the existing theories of work are mainly based at the level of the corporation, not on the network of relations that interlink them, and ho…
Reconceptualising employer associations under evolving employment relations: Countervailing Power Revisited
The decline of institutional industrial relations has led to a major reassessment of the way that traditional industrial relations actors operate. Yet, the debate about institutional change has been characteristically asymmetrical in as much as some institutional actors have figured extensively while others have been much less prominent. Historically, employer coordination has not captured the attention of the industrial relations community and t…
Stuck in the Middle? Managers in Building Societies
Understanding the Meaning of Participation: Views from the Workplace
It is now generally agreed that there has been a growth in the extensiveness of employee involvement (El) in Britain in recent years. However, the value of this information is limited because many of the studies rely heavily on management viewpoints about the impact of El. Even when surveys of employee opinion are undertaken, however, the results are typically abstracted from the organizational context in which they are located. In this article, …
The Oxford Handbook of Management
The purpose of this handbook is to analyse and explore the evolution of management: the core functions and how they may have changed; its position in the culture/zeitgeist of modern society; the institutions and ideologies that support it; and likely challenges and changes in the future. We then ask whether the twentieth century was the ‘golden age’ of the corporate, bureaucratic manager and if so what we might expect in the future. And if this w…
The digital society and provision of welfare services
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to: first, explain why a new model of the provision of welfare services to citizens arises from the digital society; second explore some core elements of the competition between the new model of the provision of welfare services and the classic ideal model of the professionals’ provision of welfare services; third, suggest why it is most likely that the two models of the provision of services are combined into…
The tyranny of corporate slenderness: Corporate Anorexia' as a Metaphor for Our Age
This paper reflects on the organizational pursuit of leanness as a corporate aesthetic.In contrast to more mainstream accounts of downsizing techniques and practices, its primary concern is with the symbolic and aesthetic aspects of downsizing.It focuses particularly o n ' c o r p o r a t e a n o r e x i a ' , e mp h a s i z ing the ways in which this managerial metaphor serves to detract critical attention away from the perpetuation of a dieting…
Double-breasting employee voice: An assessment of motives, arrangements and durability
This article explores employee voice within the specific institutional arrangement of double-breasting. Double-breasting is when multi-plant organizations recognize trade unions in some company sites, with non-union arrangements at other company plants, or where a unionized firm acquires a new site that it then operates on a non-union basis. We examine three research questions in four separate case study organizations that operate employee voice …
Understanding the Meaning of Participation: Views from the Workplace
It is now generally agreed that there has been a growth in the extensiveness of employee involvement (El) in Britain in recent years. However, the value of this information is limited because many of the studies rely heavily on management viewpoints about the impact of El. Even when surveys of employee opinion are undertaken, however, the results are typically abstracted from the organizational context in which they are located. In this article, …
Stuck in the Middle? Managers in Building Societies
Cultural Control and the 'Culture Manager: Employment Practices in a Consultancy
This article explores the use of 'company culture' as a means of management control. It reports on research conducted in a consultancy that aimed to secure loyalty from its employees through a conscious policy of organised 'play' at company socials. Employees were given a certain amount of freedom over their working lives in exchange for accepting company regulation of their social time. Here it is argued that this normative control differs from …
Remember I'm the bloody architect: Architects, organizations and discourses of profession
There is a growing consensus that professional work faces an uncertain future. However, debates have tended to take a macro focus, underplaying the role of individuals' accounts of their working lives. In this article we focus on UK architecture, examining how public-sector and private-sector architects construct the purpose and process of their occupation, applying the concept of discourse to explore and explicate the different versions expresse…
The tyranny of corporate slenderness: Corporate Anorexia' as a Metaphor for Our Age
This paper reflects on the organizational pursuit of leanness as a corporate aesthetic.In contrast to more mainstream accounts of downsizing techniques and practices, its primary concern is with the symbolic and aesthetic aspects of downsizing.It focuses particularly o n ' c o r p o r a t e a n o r e x i a ' , e mp h a s i z ing the ways in which this managerial metaphor serves to detract critical attention away from the perpetuation of a dieting…
The Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management
Direct Employee Participation
This article defines direct participation and considers the context in which participation has changed over time. It is concerned with clarifying what is meant by different participation schemes. The article also evaluates the extent to which various practices allow workers to have a say in organizational decisions. Next, it considers the issue of management choice over employee voice and participation. The article then reviews a framework agains…
Conceptualizing Employee Participation in Organizations
The concept of employee participation is common to many different discipline areas in the social sciences. The form participation takes varies considerably depending on the discipline. On the one hand, it can relate to trade union representation through joint consultative committees and collective bargaining, to worker cooperatives or to legislation designed to provide channels for employee representatives to engage in some form of joint decision…
The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations
The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations discusses various arguments and schools of thought about employee participation; analyses the range of forms that participation can take in practice; and examines the way in which it meets objectives that are set for it, either by employers, trade unions, individual workers, or, indeed, the state. Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decis…
New approaches to employee voice and participation in organizations
While the history of employee voice and participation is longstanding, there has been a sharp increase in interest in these topics among academics, practitioners, and policy-makers in recent years. The research on employee voice and participation has therefore significantly broadened, expanding from an earlier institutional focus to also include significant behavioural and strategic streams. This article introduces a symposium that extends our kn…
Oxford handbook of participation in organizations
Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization. This handbook looks at the different arguments and schools of thought, with the aim of analysing them, not just in terms of implementation but also principles.
The Future of Employment Relations: New Paradigms, New Developments
EPUB
Reconceptualising employee silence: Problems and Prognosis
A growing literature has emerged on employee silence, located within the field of organisational behaviour. Scholars have investigated when and how employees articulate voice and when and how they will opt for silence. While offering many insights, this analysis is inherently one-sided in its interpretation of silence as a product of employee motivations. An alternative reading of silence is offered which focuses on the role of management. Using …
Reconceptualising employer associations under evolving employment relations: Countervailing Power Revisited
The decline of institutional industrial relations has led to a major reassessment of the way that traditional industrial relations actors operate. Yet, the debate about institutional change has been characteristically asymmetrical in as much as some institutional actors have figured extensively while others have been much less prominent. Historically, employer coordination has not captured the attention of the industrial relations community and t…
Varieties of Capitalism and Investments in Human Capital
This paper explores the relationship between national institutional archetypes and investments in training and development. A recent trend within the literature on comparative capitalism has been to explore the nature and extent of heterogeneity within the coordinated market economies (CMEs) of Europe. Based on a review of the existing comparative literature on training and development, and comparative firm‐level survey evidence of differences in…
The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems
There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional 'silos', such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties of capitalism, with limited dialogue between different approaches to enhance understanding of institutional effects. Again, evaluations of the relation…
Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems
Handbook of Research on Managing Managers
Double-breasting employee voice: An assessment of motives, arrangements and durability
This article explores employee voice within the specific institutional arrangement of double-breasting. Double-breasting is when multi-plant organizations recognize trade unions in some company sites, with non-union arrangements at other company plants, or where a unionized firm acquires a new site that it then operates on a non-union basis. We examine three research questions in four separate case study organizations that operate employee voice …
Management and Modernity
This chapter treats Modernity as a cultural and social project of modernization that involves bringing as many aspects of human existence as possible under the control of rational processes of knowledge and practice. Management is thus at the heart of this project as it is a means to the end of establishing rational order through design, classification, and intervention. The chapter begins by looking at how formal theories of administration have …
Global trends and crises, comparative capitalism and HRM
This article reviews and consolidates the most recent literature on comparative institutional analysis, and links this to endemic crises, continuities, bounded diversity and change in HRM practice within and between nations. It is argued that national institutional arrangements both support and sustain particular sets of HR practice, but this is always contingent, and subject to the choices of actors: firms adopt practices both to take advantages…
The Oxford Handbook of Management
The purpose of this handbook is to analyse and explore the evolution of management: the core functions and how they may have changed; its position in the culture/zeitgeist of modern society; the institutions and ideologies that support it; and likely challenges and changes in the future. We then ask whether the twentieth century was the ‘golden age’ of the corporate, bureaucratic manager and if so what we might expect in the future. And if this w…
The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations
Comprising five thematic sections, this volume provides a critical, international and interdisciplinary exploration of employment relations. It examines the major subjects and emerging areas within the field, including essays on institutional theory, voice, new actors, precarious work and employment. Led by a well-respected team of editors, the contributors examine current knowledge and debates within each topic, offering cutting-edge analysis an…
Routledge Companion to Employment Relations
The digital society and provision of welfare services
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to: first, explain why a new model of the provision of welfare services to citizens arises from the digital society; second explore some core elements of the competition between the new model of the provision of welfare services and the classic ideal model of the professionals’ provision of welfare services; third, suggest why it is most likely that the two models of the provision of services are combined into…
Political science (21 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Business (15 works) · Public relations (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (10 works)