Description
Book SynopsisExamines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall levels in organizations.
Trade Review"Offers a balanced, temperate account of the merits and problems of participation in organizations."
Table of ContentsPart One: The Promise of Participative Management.
1. Changing Approaches to Management.
2. Why Participative Approaches Meet Today's Needs.
3. Participation and Organizational Effectiveness.
Part Two: Participative Programs: What Works and Does NotWork.
4. Quality Circles.
5. Employee Survey Feedback.
6. Job Enrichment.
7. Work Teams.
8. Union-Management Quality-of-Work-Life Programs.
9. Gainsharing.
10. New-Design Plants.
Part Three: High-Involvement Management: Creating an EffectiveApproach to Participation.
11. How High-Involvement Management Works.
12. Managing the Change to a High-Involvement Organization.
