Workplace Democracy : : An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations / / Donald Nightingale.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Nightingale, Donald,
• TeilnehmendeR: Clarkson, Max.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values of organizational members; the administrative structure of the organization; the interpersonal and intergroup processes; the reactions and adjustments of organization members; the social, political, economic, and cultural environments of the organization.A sample of 20 industrial organizations was selected to examine the effects of significant employee participation and to test the theory. They are matched pairs: ten permit some form of participation, and ten—similar in size, location, industry, union/non-union status, and work technology—follow conventional hierarchical design.The resulting data demonstrate that greater productivity results from employee participation in decisions relating to their work, in productivity bonuses, and in profit sharing and employee share-ownership plans.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Workplace Democracy: issues and challenges -- 2. Power and consent -- 3. A historical perspective on authority in the workplace -- 4. Congruence theory: a framework for the study of workplace democracy -- 5. The democratic and hierarchical workplaces compared -- 6. The nature of work in democratic and hierarchical workplaces -- 7. Workplace democracy and trade unionism -- 8. Profit-sharing and employee ownership: the economic dimension of workplace democracy -- 9. Workplace democracy in perspective -- Appendices -- I. Forms of workplace democracy in Canada -- II. Methodology -- III. Research instruments and measures -- References -- Index