Managing Employee Involvement and Participation

by Jeff Hyman, Bob Mason

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 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 the background of key concepts, issues and philosophies underpinning

224 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 1995