Participation and Technology

Mike Smith, John Beck, Cary L. Cooper, Charles Cox, Dick Ottaway and Reg Talbot
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Mike Smith: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
John Beck: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Cary L. Cooper: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Charles Cox: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Dick Ottaway: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Reg Talbot: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Chapter 12 in Introducing Organizational Behaviour, 1982, pp 240-260 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We have heard a great deal recently about the need to democratize or humanize the work-place in industry, to improve the quality of working life by providing the industrial worker with greater participation in the decisions involving work — participation has been a term constantly used throughout this book. Generally participation can be achieved by including employees on Boards of companies and involving them in the long-term policy-making issues of the organizations or by increasing their participation in the decision-making processes of their work-group by allowing them greater freedom in deciding how to organize and conduct their own jobs. These two approaches to industrial democracy, which, it might be added, are not mutually exclusive, have been termed by Strauss and Rosenstein (1970) as distant and immediate participation respectively.

Keywords: Trade Union; Working Life; European Economic Community; Employee Participation; Labour Turnover (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16833-0_12

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