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Participation Programs in Work Organizations Past, Present, and Scenarios for the Future
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Aviad Bar-Haim
Book Code: Q423
ISBN: 1-56720-423-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-423-0
192 pages, figures, tables
Quorum Books
Publication: 5/30/2002
List Price: $81.95 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Bar-Haim's work includes many academic journal references and is an excellent supplement to management and economic courses, upper-division undergraduate and graduate. Recommended for academic, research, and professional collections.
    —Choice     November 2002
  • [a] wonderful resource for doctoral students for their comprehensive examinations....[s]hould be very interesting to strategists as well as theorists and researchers.
    —Personnel Psychology     June 2003
Description: Employee participation programs have many faces, many definitions, many forms--and they change all the time. For some people they are meant to solve every problem in the workplace. For others they are ways to reduce resistance to management and its efforts to bring about organizational change. Still others see them as totally redundant and a hindrance to efficency and the implementation of good management practices. To make sense of it all, Bar-Haim integrates--historically, thematically, analytically--the wide but often incoherent knowledge we have about these programs, and in doing so portrays them in a clear, useful, multidimensional manner. The result is a work of scholarship and practical guidance that students, scholars, researchers, and executives will find important, an action-oriented source of vital information. Bar-Haim shows that participation programs in work organizations have always attempted to solve three basic human problems, problems stemming from industrial democracy and equality, work alienation, and occupational and managerial effectiveness. To do this he uses a rare multidimensional technique. He describes and analyzes the processes and behavior of participation, participants, and organizational forms using a a variety of conceptual and theoretical frames drawn from the social and management sciences. He enhances our understanding of participation programs on micro and macro levels, and then provides practical guidelines from the real-world experience of other scholars and executives. Among the several ironies he discovers are that the roles of enthusiasts, opponents, and skeptics changed during the course of a jubilee of these programs. By integrating a large body of research and suggesting a formal model to evaluate existing employee programs and projected ones, his book attempts to ease the enigmatic ambivalence we have toward worker participation in general. In fact, he shows that by better understanding the dynamics of participation programs, it is possible for those who desire such programs to create, construct, and maintain better ones.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Participation Programs: Mapping the Field
  • Problem Areas and Definitions
  • Indirect Representative Programs
  • Direct Participation Programs
  • Economic Participation Programs
  • Worker's Participation: The First Generation
  • Major Players of Worker's Participation
  • Employee Involvement: The Second Generation
  • Major Players of Employee Involvement
  • A General Model of Participation Programs
  • System Elements of Participation Programs
  • A Core Model of Participation Programs
  • Applying the Model to Specific Cases
  • Future of Participation Programs
  • Preparing the Ground for Scenario Construction
  • Future Scenarios of Participation Programs
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix I: Co-Determination in German Coal, Iron, and Steel Industries
  • Appendix II: Data for Two Israeli Programs
  • Appendix III: "The Challenge of Mondragon" by George Benello
  • References
LC Card Number: 2001051095
LCC Class: HD5650
Dewey Class: 331
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