An Experiment in Democratic Determination of Pay

Abstract

Throughout the industrialised democracies new organisational structures and systems of human relations are being developed. In Western Europe there is a movement from a capitalist towards a more socialist economy under the influence of political pressures of labour parties and trade unions — the movement called “democratic socialism”. The “democratic” aspect appears in the form of co‐determination and tripartism. In North America there is no or little parallel shift in the politico‐economic system, and co‐determination has gained hardly any foothold. Instead there is a strong humanist movement, based upon the cultural idiom of individualism, with accent upon motivation and the quality of working life: “human relations” are to be improved (although none of the experts on the subject even define human relations). It is all very sincere but empirical; there is no coherent philosophy such as that in Europe.

Citation

Paterson, T.T. (1980), "An Experiment in Democratic Determination of Pay", Management Decision, Vol. 18 No. 6, pp. 348-357. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001256