PARTICIPATION

•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.

•It is a sharing process that may increase the power of both employees and the manager.

3 IMPORTANT IDEAS-INVOLVEMENT-CONTRIBUTION-RESPONSIBILITY

Mental and emotional involvement

• a person entire self is involve not just his or her skills.

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.

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.

Merits of Workers Participation in Management

• increase in productivity• Increase in efficiency of employee• Establish industrial peace• Establish industrial democracy

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

•Mutual ability to communicate•Restriction to the area of job freedom

PROGRAMS FOR PARTICIPATION

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.

SUGGESTION PROGRAM- This is the formal plans to invite employees to recommend work improvements.

QUALITY EMPHASIS

•Quality management•Quality circles

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.

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