WORKERS’PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT

Submitted to: Submitted By:Mrs.Nisha Siddiqui Amrita BajpaiFaculty,IMS Amrita Anand

Pushpa Thakur Varun Mishra

SCENE AT XYZ COMPANY WORKING SITE

WORKER’S PARTICIPATION:• Participation may be define as taking part in sharing

of power and states b/w manager and worker.• Worker’s participation in management seeks to

bridge this gap authorizing workers to take in the managerial process

DEFINATION:• Thus, worker’s participation in management means giving scope for

worker to influence the managerial decision making process at different levels by various form in organization.

Objective • Increasing the efficiency and establishing

harmonious industrial relations.• A device tapping human talent.• A means for achieving industrial peace and harmony

which leads to higher productivity and and increased production.

• A humanitarian act, elevating the status of a worker in the society.• An ideological way of developing self-management and promoting

industrial democracy.

• To improve the quality of working life .• To secure the mutual cooperation of employees and

employers .

• Giving employees better understanding of their role.• Satisfying the workers urge for self-expression.• Developing of human personality.

PURPOSE• Information sharing• Sharing decision making• Self control

Significance • Higher productivity.• Great commitment • Reduce industrial unrest• Improve decision making• Human resource development• Reduce resistance to change

FORMS OF WPM

• INFOMATIVE PARTICIPATION• CONSULTATIVE PARTICIPATION• ASSOCIATIVE PARTICIPATION• ADMINISTRATIVE PARTICIPATION• DECISIVE PARTICIPATION

• Refers to sharing of information with workers regarding: Economic position, State of market, Production & sales programmes,Work methods, Balance sheet……..etc.

• But here workers have no right to analyze or investigate the information.

INFORMATIVE PARTICIPATION

• Workers are given the chance to express their views on various issues concerning work ,workplace,working condition,market standing,financial status etc.

• But joint council works as advisory body only. Management may or may not accept the suggestion.

CONSULTATIVE PARTICIPATION

• Council is not purely advisory.the management is under moral obligation to accept and impliment the decision of the council.

Associative participation

Can be said BOARD LEVEL PARTICIPATION The workers’ representative on the Board can play a useful role in : safeguarding the interests of workers can prevail upon top management not to take measures that would be

unpopular with the employee

can guide the Board members on matters of investment in employee benefit schemes like housing, and so forth

ADMINISTRATIVE PARTICIPATION

• This is the form of participation where decisions are taken jointly on matters related to production ,safety, welfare etc.

DECISIVE PARTICIPATION

May include :• Partnership through ownership• Partnership through complete control

Essential conditions in successful working of WPM

The success of workers participation in management depends upon the following

conditions:

The attitude and outlook of the parties.

Both parties should have a genuine faith in the system and in each other and be willing to work together.

Participation should be real.

Participation must work as complementary body to help collective bargaining, which creates conditions of work and also creates legal relations.

There should be a strong trade union, which has learnt the virtues of unit and self-reliance so that they may effectively take part in collective bargaining or participation.

A peaceful atmosphere should be there wherein there are no strikes and lock-outs, for their presence ruins the employees, harms the interest of the society, and puts the employees to financial losses.

Authority should be centralized through democratic management process. The participation should be at the two or at the most three levels.

Programs for training and education should be developed comprehensively.

For this purpose, Labor is to be given education not to the head alone, not to the heart

alone, not to the hands alone, but it is dedicated to the three; • To make the workers think, feel and act

CONCLUSION• Management should be prepared to give all information connected with

the working of the industry and labor should handle that information with full confidence and responsibility.

• workers should become aware of their responsibilities, the leaders should initiate this in them.

• Similarly, the top management should make the lower echelons to show a new attitude in the light of the new relationship.

LIMITATIONS OF WPM

complex organizational structures and modern technology

It is voluntary in character

Unsatisfactory roll of trade unions in promoting WPM

Manager’s consideration WPM as fraud

Time consuming

REASONS FOR LIMITED SUCCESS

Concept itself

Multiplicity of trade unions and factionalism

Failure to imbibe the spirit of participation by the parties

Multiplicity of participative forums

Lack of arrangements for gain sharing of WPM

REASONS FOR LIMITED SUCCESS Cont…..

Illiteracy of the workers

Lack of professional expertise of the representatives of the workers

Non co-operative attitude of the working class

Unhappy IR

Lack of strong trade unionism

Suggestions for improvements

Serious attention for the removal of the hurdles

Efforts to stir up the management and workers at the local level

Governments roll in giving guidelines and removing impediments in the way

Education and training programme

A system of sharing the fruits of participation

CCConclusion

Management should be prepared to give all information connected with the working of the industry and labor should handle that information with full confidence and responsibility. The workers should become aware of their responsibilities. The leaders should initiate this in them. Similarly, the top management should make the lower echelons to show a new attitude in the light of the new relationship.

Management should be prepared to give all information connected with the working of the industry and labor should handle that information with full confidence and responsibility. The workers should become aware of their responsibilities. The leaders should initiate this in them. Similarly, the top management should make the lower echelons to show a new attitude in the light of the new relationship

CCConclusionConti….

Management should be prepared to give all information connected with the working of the industry and labor should handle that information with full confidence and responsibility. The workers should become aware of their responsibilities. The leaders should initiate this in them. Similarly, the top management should make the lower echelons to show a new attitude in the light of the new relationship.

It gives workers a feeling that he is an integral and an important part of the organisation.

This creates a climate in which he may get reasonable opportunities to show his worth.

Management should have a constructive attitude and should regard trade unions not as an obstacle.

Government should take responsibility for the provision of a satisfactory workers education

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