Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy, empowerment - are they distinct and innovative arrangements? In this text, four experienced international analysts look at the changing forms of - and changing debates around - organizational participation.
Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy, empowerment - are they distinct and innovative arrangements or is it a case of new wine in old bottles? In the post war period we have seen numerous forms of organizational participation sometimes as experiments, sometimes as negotiated expediency, and sometimes as hype. Different ideas have emerged from different parts of the world, in different industries, at different times with different objectives.
In this book four experienced international analysts take the longer view and look at the changing forms of - and changing debates around - orgnaizational participation.
The review an extensive literature of experiments and practical experiences through a critical evaluation of the available data to reach balanced conclusions about the importance and utility of this concept for organizations now and in the future.
'It is truly amazing that the authors, after having occupied themselves for so many years with fads and foibles, facts and fiction of participation and kindered topics, still manage to take a fresh look and tell us something new about it. But they do, ...(and) they do so in a clear and cogent style.' Professor Cornelis Lammers, University of Leyden, The Netherlands
