Empowerment and Justice

Frederick B. Bird

Chapter 2 in Ethics and Empowerment, 1999, pp 41-89 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract How much say should those who work for organisations have in the organisations for which they work? How much influence should they be able to exercise over the pace and patterns of their own work, over the development of their own careers, over the direction of their organisations? Should businesses be operated like democracies? Should workers be treated like partners? These questions have been raised time and again since the beginnings of industrialisation. They are being raised again and now by the current interest in programmes that promise, among other things, to empower workers. Corporations are being counselled today to empower their workers and democratise their organisations because such changes are deemed to be both just and fair as well as good for business (Kanter, 1983, chapter 6; Lawler, 1986; Foy, 1994; Ackoff, 1994).1

Keywords: Trade Union; Organizational Citizenship Behavior; Work Unit; Personal Power; Governance Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230372726_3

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