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

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

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 val...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.)
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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

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