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The impact of employee involvement on organisational commitment and ‘them and us’ attitudes
Author(s) -
Guest David,
Peccei Riccardo,
Thomas Andrea
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1993.tb00672.x
Subject(s) - identity (music) , control (management) , intervention (counseling) , employee engagement , business , public relations , political science , psychology , management , economics , physics , psychiatry , acoustics
This article presents a measure of ‘them and us' as a basis for evaluating an employee involvement programme in British Rail. The results of a longitudinal study with control groups and various forms of post‐training intervention show no change in organisational commitment but some evidence of a shift towards a more local pattern of identity which excludes union representatives from ‘us'.