Managing Employee Involvement and Participation

Edition

1st edition

Published

1995

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

ISBN-13

9780803987272

ISBN-10

0803987277

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Language

English

As issues of employee involvement and participation once more evoke considerable controversy, this textbook provides an accessible overview of the main strands, perspectives and debates in current thinking and practice. It adopts a comparative international approach, addressing developments in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, the United States and elsewhere. The authors identify two main strands of evolution: one driven by managerial interests in enhancing and controlling employee commitment and performance; the other deriving from employees′ attempts to influence high-level organizational decision-making. In particular, they examine and analyze: the background of key concepts, issues and philosophies underpinning