Title: | E‐voice in the digitalised workplace. Insights from an alternative organisation | Authors: | Bernauer, Vanessa Sandra Kornau, Angela |
Language: | eng | Keywords: | alternative organisation;collective;digitalisation;e-voice;electronic voice;employee voice | Issue Date: | 25-Jun-2022 | Document Type: | Article | Journal / Series / Working Paper (HSU): | Human Resource Management Journal | Abstract: | Digitalisation permeates all aspects of organizational life, especially the ways we communicate with each other. Drawing on a case study of an alternative organisation—the German collective Premium, which is almost entirely digitally organised—we seek to explore contextual factors that facilitate or hinder the expression of electronic voice (e-voice). Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with different members of the collective, we identified various contextual facilitators and barriers to e-voice expression: Collective belief in the value of diverse voices, cautious online and complementary face-to-face communication facilitate e-voice, while less formalised structures, power and knowledge asymmetries, and information overload hinder it. These findings demonstrate that despite an alternative organisation's firm intention and self-reflective efforts to create an inclusive and participatory digital space, tensions arise. Further, our study contributes to employee voice theorising by outlining contextual factors that are specifically relevant to e-voice practices. |
Organization Units (connected with the publication): | Personalpolitik | ISSN: | 0954-5395 | Publisher DOI: | 10.1111/1748-8583.12460 |
Appears in Collections: | 3 - Reported Publications |
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