This document discusses workers' participation in management. It provides an overview of the history and approaches to workers' participation, including forms of participation described by different authors. It also outlines workers' participation in India, noting the constitutional amendment enabling legislation for participation and discussion of the Participation of Workers in Management Bill introduced in 1990. The document advocates for statutory provisions to enable more specific and meaningful participation of workers at all levels of management.

1. Workers’ Participation in
Management
Dr. Anand K. Rai
IWP, Bareilly
anandrai@iwpkatha.co.i
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2. • This is the process for participation in
management of workers.
It is provide self-respect, identity, etc. under the
democratic umbrella.
It has been generally accepted that mutual
understanding and cooperation between
management and workers can provide a solid
foundation for the economic development of a
country.
It is believed that a worker is a not a marketable
commodity but is a self- respecting human
being.
First time, the Clayton Act, 1914 mentioned that
labour was not a commodity or an article of

3. • In,1944, through declaration of
Philadelphia by ILO was adopted
upheld ‘personality and dignity of the
individual’.
It has been increasingly realised that the
workers have feelings, emotions and
aspirations like all other human beings
and strive to fulfil them through the
instrumentality of work from which they
not only make their living a factory than
the work of his hands. He brings a part
of his life he lives with all its biological ,
social and psychological concomitants

4. Forms of Workers’ Participation:
According to Walker, there are
some forms- ascending,
descending, disjunctive,informal,
formal, individual or collective,
representative and direct or
indirect.
According to Dale- Informational,
Advisory, Constructive and Joint

5. Approaches
Reformist
Marxist
Syndicalism
Socialist
Pluralist
Integrative
Gandhian

6. Workers’Participation in India
In year1976, by the amendment in Indian Constitution
and inserted article 43A in directive principles of state
policy quote “the state shall take steps by suitable
legislation, or in any other way to ensure the
participation of workers in the management of the
undertakings, establishments or other organisations
engaged in any industry”.
The Participation of Workers in Management Bill, 1990
introduced in Parliament floor. In this bill propose no
any statutory provisions for participation.
In, present no any independent central law on this
subject. The non-statutory schemes have not been
able to provide an effective framework for a
meaningful participation of workers in management

7. • In this bill provides specific and meaningful
participation to all levels, formulation of one or more
schemes to specify detailed criteria, principle of secret
ballot for determining the representation of all levels
and rules to specify the power for monitoring
committee.
A statutory provisions was made in the Industrial
Disputes Act, 1947 regarding that, “ in the case of any
industrial establishment in which one hundred and
more workmen are employed or have been employed
n any day in the preceding twelve months, the
appropriate Government may by a general or special
order require the employer to constitute a Works
Committee consisting of representatives of employers
and workmen”.
The duty of above Work Committee are, “to promote