Conference paper

An Evaluative Model for Worker Participation in Management

William Westley ; Montreal

Abstract

The three elements of this evaluation model: worker needs and goals, the level of the economy, and the nature of the technology, are ordinarily interrelated and strongly influence the degree to which a particular level of worker participation in management is accepted by the workers, persists and achieves the economic and psychological rewards expected by worker participation. Thus in scarcity level economies, using mass production methods, the workers are ordinarily operating at the level of physiological and safety needs and only very limited participation schemes like the Scanlon Plan have any chance of success. Shop floor or enterprise control would probably result in decreased income for the workers and would be rejected by them.
On the other hand, in affluent economies, in enterprises devoted to the production of electronic components, the highly educated workers operate at the level of social and possibly self-actualizing needs and a very advanced participation scheme is essential to the full motivation of the workers and maximum productivity. Between these two, there are, of course a wide range and variety of work settings and the author suggests that for them must be devised an equal variety of ways and degrees of worker participation in management.

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Hrčak ID:

156505

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156505

Publication date:

30.6.1973.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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