High-Involvement Management
Participative Strategies for Improving Organizational Performance

Edward E. Lawler, III (Author)

9781555423308, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 18 January 1991

274 pages
25 x 13 x 6 cm, 0.363 kg

"Offers a balanced, temperate account of the merits and problems of participation in organizations."

Examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall levels in organizations.

Part One: The Promise of Participative Management.

1. Changing Approaches to Management.

2. Why Participative Approaches Meet Today's Needs.

3. Participation and Organizational Effectiveness.

Part Two: Participative Programs: What Works and Does NotWork.

4. Quality Circles.

5. Employee Survey Feedback.

6. Job Enrichment.

7. Work Teams.

8. Union-Management Quality-of-Work-Life Programs.

9. Gainsharing.

10. New-Design Plants.

Part Three: High-Involvement Management: Creating an EffectiveApproach to Participation.

11. How High-Involvement Management Works.

12. Managing the Change to a High-Involvement Organization.

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]