Participation Programs in Work Organizations or Contemporary Strategic Management

Participation Programs in Work Organizations: Past, Present, and Scenarios for the Future

Author: Aviad Bar Haim

Employee participation programs have many faces, many definitions, many forms--and they change all the time. Bar-Haim, taking a historical approach, dissects these plans with readable, lucid scholarship, and makes sense of the various confusing experiences others have had with them. He analyzes the shapes and dimensions these plans take, using a variety of conceptual frames from the social and management sciences; suggests practical guidelines to operationalize them, then adds a number of highly plausible scenarios for what these plans could look like in the near and perhaps distant future. Students, scholars, researchers, and human resource executives will all find this an important, useful source of action-oriented information.

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Industrial democracy, employee involvement, autonomous work groups, and self-management are among the manifestations of participation work programs that Bar-Haim (management and economics, Open U. of Israel, Tel Aviv) examines. He looks at intellectual and pragmatic roots, the earlier indirect and later direct approaches since World War II, a general model, and the future of such programs as an organizational and social phenomenon. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Participation Programs: Mapping the Field
Ch. 1	Problem Areas and Definitions	5
Ch. 2	Indirect Representative Programs	21
Ch. 3	Direct Participation Programs	27
Ch. 4	Economic Participation Programs	43
Pt. II	Two Generations of Participation Programs
Ch. 5	Workers' Participation: The First Generation	53
Ch. 6	Major Players of Workers' Participation	57
Ch. 7	Employee Involvement: The Second Generation	71
Ch. 8	Major Players of Employee Involvement	81
Pt. III	A General Model of Participation Programs
Ch. 9	System Elements of Participation Programs	101
Ch. 10	A Core Model of Participation Programs	113
Ch. 11	Applying the Model to Specific Cases	127
Pt. IV	Future of Participation Programs
Ch. 12	Preparing the Ground for Constructing Scenarios	137
Ch. 13	Future Scenarios of Participation Programs	143
Ch. 14	Epilogue	151
App. A	Co-determination in German Coal, Iron, and Steel Industries	153
App. B	Data for Two Israeli Programs	155
App. C	"The Challenge of Mondragon"	157
	References	161
	Index	177

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Contemporary Strategic Management

Author: Richard Pettinger

This text identifies, outlines and develops the body of skills, knowledge and expertise that is needed by managers in all senior positions within public and private organizations. Covering analysis and choice, implementation and the development of strategic management from a managerial perspective, the text also includes a discussion of key contemporary issues in the topic. Written in Richard Pettinger's tried and tested accessible style, MBA and final year management students will appreciate the:
*Comprehensive subject coverage including chapters on strategic thinking, investment appraisal, ethics, management development and public services
*Over 150 'Contemporary Insights' providing examples of organizations and situations to illustrate strategy in practice
*Discussion of strategic failures as well as successes
*Emphasis on the need for strategic expert leadership within organizations
*Organizations and situations featured within the contemporary insights include:
Barbie, The Cancellation of Concorde, EasyJet, Glaxo SmithKline, McDonalds, Mitsubishi, Nestle, Rebuilding Iraq, Sony, Swatch and Unilever

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