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Employee voice

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, employee voice means: The expression of employees' ideas, concerns and suggestions with the possibility of influencing workplace decisions.

In Turkish: çalışanın söz sahibi olması

How it is used

Use for channels and practices that enable influence, not merely receiving management announcements.

Example sentences

  1. The staff forum gave employee voice a place in discussions about shift changes.

    Employees contribute to decisions that affect how they work.

  2. Managers reviewed whether the suggestion system produced real employee voice or only collected comments.

    Collecting views is distinguished from allowing them to influence decisions.

Common collocations

  • strengthen employee voice
  • employee voice mechanisms
  • feedbackComments on how well someone has done a piece of work or behaved, given so that they can keep doing what works and improve what does not.
  • employee engagementHow committed, involved and enthusiastic employees feel about their work and their organisation, which affects how much effort they put in and whether they stay.

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