Organizational Democracy Organizational Participation And Employee Ownership Individual Organizational And Societal Outcomes

Author : Wolfgang G. Weber
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832518427
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational democracy, organizational participation, and employee ownership: Individual, organizational and societal outcomes written by Wolfgang G. Weber and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald V. Nightingale
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442655984
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workplace Democracy written by Donald V. Nightingale and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1982-12-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values of organizational members; the administrative structure of the organization; the interpersonal and intergroup processes; the reactions and adjustments of organization members; the social, political, economic, and cultural environments of the organization. A sample of 20 industrial organizations was selected to examine the effects of significant employee participation and to test the theory. They are matched pairs: ten permit some form of participation, and ten—similar in size, location, industry, union/non-union status, and work technology—follow conventional hierarchical design. The resulting data demonstrate that greater productivity results from employee participation in decisions relating to their work, in productivity bonuses, and in profit sharing and employee share-ownership plans.

Author : Adrian Wilkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191607207
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations written by Adrian Wilkinson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether direct or indirect - conducted with employees or through their representatives. In its various guises, the topic of employee participation has been a recurring theme in industrial relations and human resource management. One of the problems in trying to develop any analysis of participation is that there is potentially limited overlap between these different disciplinary traditions, and scholars from diverse traditions may know relatively little of the research that has been done elsewhere. Accordingly in this book, a number of the more significant disciplinary areas are analysed in greater depth in order to ensure that readers gain a better appreciation of what participation means from these quite different contextual perspectives. Not only is there a range of different traditions contributing to the research and literature on the subject, there is also an extremely diverse sets of practices that congregate under the banner of participation. The handbook discusses various arguments and schools of thought about employee participation, analyzes the range of forms that participation can take in practice, and examines the way in which it meets objectives that are set for it, either by employers, trade unions, individual workers, or, indeed, the state. In doing so, the Handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world who present and discuss fundamental theories and approaches to participation in organization as well as their connection to broader political forces. These selections address the changing contexts of employee participation, different cultural/ institutional models, old/'new' economy models, shifting social and political patterns, and the correspondence between industrial and political democracy and participation.

Author : G. David Garson
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational Democracy written by G. David Garson and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Heller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191660086
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational Participation written by Frank Heller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Berhanu Abegaz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031215842
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Economic Transitions written by Berhanu Abegaz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Economic Transitions explains the genesis, operation, and transformation of the centrally-planned socialist economy, which figured prominently in the lives of billions of people in twentieth-century Europe and Asia. Just as importantly, the centrally-planned socialist economy’s demise coincided with the shift from nonindustrial to industrial economy (and de-industrialization in some cases) and the onset of ICT-driven globalization. Using theory, empirics, and selected country case studies, this book teases out the enduring lessons from the myriad and fraught pathways of transition from socialism to capitalism. Understanding Economic Transitions provides a self-contained, comprehensive, and authoritative treatment of modern economic systems. This textbook has four features of particular use to students: (i) Using the prism of comparative institutionalism, it melds theory and evidence to revisit the varieties of planned and market-driven systems today; (ii) It takes economic planning seriously in theory and practice (central, cooperative, or indicative) as the most prominent marker of the ever-changing boundaries between state and market; (iii) It focuses on the dynamics of systemic transition in formerly socialist countries by contextualizing them in terms of the whence (central planning), the how (modalities of transition), and the whither (illiberal or liberal capitalism) of politico-economic transformation; and (iv) It examines the profound impact on these structural processes of the post-1990 phase of economic globalization. With its clear, comprehensive content and useful pedagogical features, this textbook will prepare students to understand how economies transition and why.

Author : Raymond Russell
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198287025
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ownership and Participation written by Raymond Russell and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the different forms of employee participation in decision-making and ownership. It is especially relevant given current developments in Central and Eastern Europe. Three areas are examined in particular: the issue of ownership and its implications for participation; the specific forms employee participation can take and how it can be effectively promoted within firms; and the influence of external factors such as the role of the state, unions, and other institutions.

Author : Aviad Bar-Haim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313076294
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Participation Programs in Work Organizations written by Aviad Bar-Haim and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee participation programs have many faces, many definitions, many forms—and they change all the time. For some people they are meant to solve every problem in the workplace. For others they are ways to reduce resistance to management and its efforts to bring about organizational change. Still others see them as totally redundant and a hindrance to efficency and the implementation of good management practices. To make sense of it all, Bar-Haim integrates—historically, thematically, analytically—the wide but often incoherent knowledge we have about these programs, and in doing so portrays them in a clear, useful, multidimensional manner. The result is a work of scholarship and practical guidance that students, scholars, researchers, and executives will find important, an action-oriented source of vital information. Bar-Haim shows that participation programs in work organizations have always attempted to solve three basic human problems, problems stemming from industrial democracy and equality, work alienation, and occupational and managerial effectiveness. To do this he uses a rare multidimensional technique. He describes and analyzes the processes and behavior of participation, participants, and organizational forms using a a variety of conceptual and theoretical frames drawn from the social and management sciences. He enhances our understanding of participation programs on micro and macro levels, and then provides practical guidelines from the real-world experience of other scholars and executives. Among the several ironies he discovers are that the roles of enthusiasts, opponents, and skeptics changed during the course of a jubilee of these programs. By integrating a large body of research and suggesting a formal model to evaluate existing employee programs and projected ones, his book attempts to ease the enigmatic ambivalence we have toward worker participation in general. In fact, he shows that by better understanding the dynamics of participation programs, it is possible for those who desire such programs to create, construct, and maintain better ones.

Author : Joyce Rothschild
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521379427
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cooperative Workplace written by Joyce Rothschild and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides evidence on how worker cooperatives are functioning today.

Author : Frank Heller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429779364
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Democratic Organizations I written by Frank Heller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, this volume, along with its counterpart, consist of contributions to the history of management and management thought which ask and assess how important managing democratic organizations is today, and how important it will prove to be moving forward, presenting both optimistic and pessimistic interpretations. This collection describes three interrelated research programmes in the form of 38 classic essays and lists 21 authors.