2. •It is an important vehicle for empowering employees.
•It is the mental and emotional involvement of
persons in group situations that encourages them to
contribute to group goals and share responsibility
for them.
3. •It is a sharing process that may
increase the power of both employees
and the manager.
6. Contribution
•This concept in participation is that it
motivates people to contribute. They are
empowered to release their own resources
of initiative and creativity towards the
objectives of the organization.
7. Acceptance of responsibility
• Participation encourages to accept responsibility in the groups
activities
• This is the social process by which people become self-involved
in an organization and want to see it work successfully.
8. Merits of Workers Participation in
Management
• increase in productivity
• Increase in efficiency of employee
• Establish industrial peace
• Establish industrial democracy
9. Prerequisites for Participation
• Adequate time to participate
• Relevance to employees interests
• Adequate employee abilities deal with the
subject.
• No feeling of threat to either party
12. CONSULTATIVE MANAGEMENT
-This means that managers ask their employees to think
about issues, share their expertise and contribute their
own ideas before a managerial decision is made.
15. TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM)
• This approach gets every employee involved
in the process of searching for continuous
improvements in their operations.
• This contstitutes a formal program with
direct participation of employees.