“…Meanwhile, the implementation of such systems has been found to confront a number of potentially important barriers. These barriers encompass, among other things, conflicting organisational priorities, such as those arising from cost and production pressures (Dawson et al, 1988;Nichols and Tucker, 2000), the difficulties of effectively embedding their requirements culturally and operationally in the work routines and attitudes of managers and those they manage (Frick and Wren, 2000), and the problems associated with the establishment of mechanisms of worker 'voice' that act to provide the levels of workforce involvement that are typically viewed as central to their successful operation (Walters and Nichols, 2007).…”