Involvement, Participation and Partnership: A Review of the Debate and Reflections on the Irish Context

Gunnigle, Patrick

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“…Participation can be direct or indirect and there are substantial differences between information, consultation and decision making wherein the timbre of labour's voice can be addressed in terms of depth, level, form and scope (see Marchington et al , 2001). One‐way‐traffic in communicating information by capital to labour remains the dominant mechanism identified in the substantive body of emerging Irish research here (D'Art and Turner, 2002; Dundon et al , 2003; Gunnigle, 1999; Roche and Geary, 2000; Teague, 2004; Wallace et al , 2004). In terms of greater freedom in decision making by labour on everyday operational issues one can view such developments as necessarily imposed due to the difficulty of monitoring intangible work.…”

Section: Ownership Ic and “Pieces Of Action”mentioning

confidence: 83%

On the “essential condition” of intellectual capital: labour!

O’Donnell

Tracey

Henriksen

et al. 2006

Journal of Intellectual Capital

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Following Marx and Engels' identification of the "essential condition of capital", the purpose of this paper is to begin an initial critical exploration of the essential condition of intellectual capital, particularly the ownership rights of labour. Design/methodology/approach -Adopting a critically modernist stance on unitarist HR and OB discourse, and contextualised within a background on the stock option phenomenon and recent accounting regulation, the paper argues that the fundamental nature of the capital-labour relation continues resiliently into the IC labour (intellectual capital-labour) relation. Findings -There is strong evidence that broad-based employee stock options (ESOPs) have become institutionalised in certain firms and sectors -but the future of such schemes is very uncertain (post 2005 accounting regulation). Overly unitarist HR/OB arguments are challenged here with empirical evidence on capital's more latently strategic purposes such as conserving cash, reducing reported accounting expense in order to boost reported earnings, deferring taxes, and attracting, retaining and exploiting key elements of labour. Research limitations/implications -Research supports the positive benefits of broad-based employee stock ownership schemes. Further research on the benefits of such schemes and the reasons why they are or are not implemented is now required. Practical implications -From the perspective of labour, nothing appears to have really changed (yet) in terms of the essential condition of intellectual capital. Originality/value -This paper explicitly raises the issue of the ownership rights of labour to intellectual capital.

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Section: Ownership Ic and “Pieces Of Action”mentioning

confidence: 83%