Employee Involvement
Categories: Company Management
How much employees are able or allowed to have a say in how things are run.
Many managers believe that allowing employees more say in the way an organization runs, the more dedicated those employees will be…or they might just try to take over.
There are two main forms:
Participative Management: Employees actually share authority with their supervisor. For instance, a department head, under this scenario, would not be able to make decisions for the department alone. The employees would have a say…and not the kind of say that he/she can just give a head nod to and then subsequently ignore. It’s actual say. Real decision-making ability.
Representative Management: A group of employees effectively represent a larger group of employees in organizational decision-making. It’s almost like Congress, only likely far less corrupt.
See: Unions. And then see: Hawthorne Effect.