Workers' Participation Versus Management Control

Abstract

Workers' participation in management decision making has always been a controversial subject. One of the problems, central to this controversy is management's prerogatives. Business leaders are feeling increasing pressures for participation from workers and their organisations in areas of enterprise that were once exclusively reserved for management. They are afraid that legal and quasi legal schemes of participation will increase employees' and trade‐unions' influence and power and will erode managerial control. To what extent are these fears justified? How should the enterprise operating in a democratic framework be directed and controlled?

Citation

Jain, H.C. (1979), "Workers' Participation Versus Management Control", Management Research News, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 8-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027731