Broadly, worker’s participation in management means associating representatives of workers at every stage of decision-making. Participative management is considered as a process by which the worker’s share in decision-making extends beyond the decisions that are implicit in the specific content of the jobs they do. This amounts to the workers having a share in the reaching of final managerial decisions in an enterprise.
Definition 1: Association of Workers in decision-making process
Workers’ participation may 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 the workers’ members on management or supervisory boards or even management by workers themselves.
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