The document discusses the significance of workers' participation in management decision-making within manufacturing industries, emphasizing its necessity for reducing industrial unrest and improving employee satisfaction. It identifies various levels of participation, including information, consultative, administrative, and decisive, while presenting a study involving 120 respondents from two companies in Himachal Pradesh, which reveals a majority in favor of voluntary participation. The findings suggest improvements in working conditions and the need for enhanced communication between management and employees, advocating for education and awareness to promote participatory schemes.

1. Worker’s Participation in Management Decision
making – with special reference to
Manufacturing Industries.
Gurjeet kaur(Assistant Professor, BUEST)
Ashu Saini (MBA student)
Abhishek(MBA student)

2.  In recent years research and discussions on workers'
participation in decision-making have dominated much of
management literature. In its broadest possible sense, workers'
participation means wider involvement and participation by a
company's employee in the decision making process of that
organization. With the outbreak of the First World War, an
acute industrial unrest was experienced in those countries
where its impact was intense. In countries like England, West
Germany, France and the USA because labour was treated as
“commodity of commerce”

3. A system of communication and consultation,
either formal or informal ,by which employees
of an organization are kept informed about
the affairs of an undertaking and through
which they express their opinion and
contribute to the management decisions.

4. Information participation: It insures that
employees are able to receive information
and express their views pertaining to the
matter of general economic importance.
Consultative importance: Here workers are
consulted on the matters of employee welfare
such as work, safety and health. However ,
final decision always rests with the top-level
management, as employees views are only
advisory in nature

5. Administrative participation: Here, decisions
are already taken by the management come
to employees, preferably with alternatives
and employees have to select the best from
those for implementation.
Decisive participation : Highest level of
participation where decision are jointly taken
on the matters relating to production ,
welfare etc.

6.  Suggestion schemes
 Work committee
 Joint management councils
 Joint councils
 Shop councils

7.  To study the awareness of worker
participation in management.
 To study the working conditions of workers in
manufacturing Industries.

8.  In order to meet the objectives of the present
study, sampling techniques are used.
 At the first stage with the help of convenient
sampling, two enterprises Drish Shoes
Limited and Borkar Group of Industries are
selected from Manufacturing Industries in
Nalagarh, District- Solan in Himachal
Pradesh.

9.  At the second stage, while adopting the quota
sampling, a sample of 120 respondents @ 60
workers from each enterprise (60 × 2 = 120)
have been selected. A special care has been
taken that the respondents of different age
groups, education levels and locality are
selected.

10. For accomplishing the objectives of the study,
both Primary & Secondary data have been
utilized.
TOOLS OF ANALYSIS:
 MATHEMATICAL TOOLS
In the present research work, mathematical
tools viz. Percentages method and simple
average have been used.
STATISTICAL TOOLS

11.  This sampling method is used to collect the
information for study, so this study is
affected by the limitation of the sampling
method.
 It is not necessary that the inference
withdrawn from this study will be as same as
the inference withdrawn from other studies.
 Sample size of 120 respondents is relatively
small to make the study comprehensive.

12. Company Yes No Total
Drish Shoes Ltd. 43
(71.7%)
17
(28.3%)
60
(100.00%)
Borkar Group of
Industries
32
(53.3%)
28
(46.6%)
60
(100.00%)
Total 75
(62.5%)
45
(37.5%)
120
(100.00%)

13. Companies Yes No Total
Drish Shoes Ltd. 52
(86.7%)
8
(13.3%)
60
(100.00%)
Borkar Group of
Industries
46
(76.7%)
14
(23.3%)
60
(100.00%)
Total 98
(81.7%)
22
(18.3%)
120
(100.00%)

14.  The majority of respondents opined that there
should be voluntary participation in
management.
 Most of workers from both the companies are
aware of the existence of participative machinery
in their organization.
 Out of the respondents who are aware of the
participative machinery in the case of Drish Shoes
Ltd. majority of the respondents opined that
work committees exist in their organization and
respondents’ from Borkar Group of Industries
opined that joint management council exist in
their organization.

15.  In both the companies the safety and welfare
measures are administered as per need and
requirement not as per provision and as per
insistence of unions.
 Respondents from both the companies
opined that their working conditions has
been improved after the introduction of WPM
scheme

16. Workers Participation in Management has assumed great
importance these days because it reduces industrial unrest and
helps in dispelling employees misunderstanding about the
outlook of management in industry. In a nutshell, it can be
concluded that workers have different opinion regarding their
participation, forms of WPM and also regarding their
preference. The Majority of workers are found in favour of
WPM. Workers Participation in Management may reduce
alienation or increase personal fulfilment of workers. It also
influences efficiency in various direct and indirect ways.
Careful measurement and calculation are required to assess the
net effect of participation upon efficiency and economic factor.

17.  From the analysis, it is clear that Workers
Participation in Management is cooperative in
manufacturing industries. Some of the workers
responded that management cooperation is poor,
so it should be improved by free flow of
communication and information with the
workers' management should evolve a system of
sharing the fruits of participation.
 Representatives for participation in management
should be chosen by the election than
nomination by management and union.

18.  For spreading the WPM scheme, the most
relevant measures are spread of education
and creating consciousness among the labour
for their rights.
 Govt. should also make sincere efforts for
strengthening the WPM scheme.