Gainsharing and Power : : Lessons from Six Scanlon Plans / / Denis Collins.

Denis Collins believes that participatory management systems are inevitable in democratic societies because they are ethically superior to authoritarian management systems. Managers must begin to share decision making and economic outcomes with their employees if they want to obtain long-term effici...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1998
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 25 tables, 3 drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES AND FIGURES
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Employee Involvement
  • 1. Participatory Management and Scanlon-Type Gainsharing Plans
  • 2. Conflicts of Interest: At Work and in Political Systems
  • 3. Research Methods and Facility Profiles
  • Part II. Four Nonunion Facilities
  • 4. Cylinder Lifts: A Privately Owned Nonunion Facility, Small Bonuses
  • 5. Foam Seats: A Publicly Owned Nonunion Facility, Modest Bonuses
  • 6. Forestland: A Publicly Owned Nonunion Facility, Modest Bonuses
  • 7. Innovations: A Publicly Owned Nonunion Facility, Large Bonuses
  • Part III. Two Union Facilities
  • 8. Innovations-Brotherhood: A Publicly Owned Union Facility, Very Small Bonuses
  • 9. Packaging International: A Unionized ESOP Facility, Abandoned Gainsharing
  • Part IV. Summaries and Ethical Directions
  • 10. Power Games, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned of Scanlon-Type Gainsharing Plans
  • 11. The Ethical Superiority of Participatory 11anagement 233
  • REFERENCES
  • SUBJECT INDEX
  • AUTHOR INDEX