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.

Contents: Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction: Framing resilience research / Edward H. Powley -- Part II. Nature of resilience -- 2. Resilience capacity, processes and demonstration at the employee, team and organizational levels: A multilevel perspective / Thomas W. Britt and Gargi Sawhney...

New ways of managing conflict are increasingly important features of organisational work and employment. Leading scholars in the field examine a range of innovative alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices, drawing on international research and scholarship and covering both case studies of...

Process approaches to organization studies focus on flow, activities, and evolution, understanding organizations and organizing as processes in the making. They stand in contrast to positivist approaches that see organizations and phenomena as fixed, static, and measurable. Process approaches...

Identity studies focus on how organisations define themselves and what they stand for in relation to internal and external stakeholders. This handbook offers an introduction to the growing field of organisational identity and a broad range of the most important theories and methods for the study...