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Workers

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Introduction
Three groups of managerial decisions affect
the workers of any industrial establishment
and hence the workers must have a say in it.
o
Economic
decisions

methods
of
manufacturing, automation, shutdown, layoffs, mergers.
o Personnel decisions recruitment and
selection, promotions, demotions, transfers,
grievance settlement, work distribution.
o Social decisions hours of work, welfare
measures, questions affecting work rules and
conduct of individual workers safety, health,
sanitation and noise control.

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Depending
on
the
socio-political
environment and cultural conditions, the
scope and contents of participation change.
International Institute of Labour Studies:
WPM is the participation resulting from the
practices which increase the scope for
employees share of influence in decisionmaking at different tiers of organizational
hierarch with concomitant assumption of
responsibility.
ILO: Workers participation, may broadly be
taken to cover all terms of association of
workers and their representatives with the
decision-making
process,
ranging
from
exchange
of
information,
consultations,
decisions
and
negotiations,
to
more
institutionalized forms such as the presence of
workers
member
on
management
or
supervisory boards or even management by
workers
themselves
as
practiced
in
Yugoslavia.
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Objectives:
According to Gosep, workers participation
may be viewed as:
o An instrument for increasing the efficiency
of enterprises and establishing harmonious
relations;
o A device for developing social education for
promoting solidarity among workers and for
tapping human talents;
o A means for achieving industrial peace and
harmony which leads to higher productivity
and increased production;
o A humanitarian act, elevating the status of a
worker in the society;
o An ideological way of developing selfmanagement
and
promoting
industrial
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democracy.
Other objectives of WPM can be cited as:
o To improve the quality of working life (QWL)
by allowing the workers greater influence and
involvement in work and satisfaction obtained
from
work;
and
o To secure the mutual co-operation of
employees and employers in achieving
industrial peace; greater efficiency and
productivity in the interest of the enterprise,
the workers, the consumers and the nation.
The main implications of workers
participation in management as summarized
by ILO:
o Workers have ideas which can be useful;
o Workers may work more intelligently if they
are informed about the reasons for and the
intention of decisions that are taken in a
participative atmosphere.
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