A number of organizations are placing increased attention on the retention of high quality employees. In this paper, we examine the relationship between intention to quit and human resource management, employee voice, and organizational cost cutting. The results suggest that a high commitment human resource strategy, a positive workplace climate, the presence of a grievance procedure to address...

Transformational leadership is seen as a mediator of employee voice behavior. This study attempts to investigate the influence style an organizational variable that can motivate behavior and expand understanding relationship between personal characteristics voice. The research was conducted among public sector employees online. A total 410 questionnaires were collected. After elimination invali...

Digitalisation permeates all aspects of organizational life, especially the ways we communicate with each other. Drawing on a case study an alternative organisation—the German collective Premium, which is almost entirely digitally organised—we seek to explore contextual factors that facilitate or hinder expression electronic voice (e-voice). Based 20 semi-structured interviews different members...

Organizational computing tools are often developed and managed with an eye toward increasing efficiency. Two of today’s most widespread tools are electronic mail and voice mail. They are often considered similar asynchronous communication systems, one less rich than the other. We report usage results from a single firm which adopted both electronic mail and voice mail at the same time. Survey r...

This study compares workplace dispute resolution strategies (exit, voice, and toleration) in matched pairs of conventional and worker-owned cooperative organizations operating in three industries – coal mining, taxicab driving, and organic food distribution. Building on Hirschman’s classic exit, voice, and loyalty thesis, this research demonstrates how the degree of loyalty that workers hold af...

Diane Burns, Paula Hyde, Anne Killett, Fiona Poland and Richard Gray University of Sheffield, Management School, Mushroom Lane, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK, University of East Anglia, University Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, UK, and University of the West of England, Faculty of Health and Li...