The document discusses workers' participation in management. It defines participation as workers contributing to and sharing responsibility for group goals. Workers' participation in management means giving workers influence over managerial decision making through various forms in an organization. The objectives of participation are to give workers democratic rights, raise motivation, encourage idea sharing, and avoid conflicts. The importance is mutual understanding, higher productivity, industrial harmony, industrial democracy, less resistance to change, and more creativity. Forms of participation include suggestion schemes, works committees, joint management councils, work directors, and co-partnership.