MG204 Worker rep non TU

-Those arrangements that allow employees to have a say and or share in the management and or profits of the organisation

- Traditionally worker were not accessed to management functions such as planning, organizing, controlling & leading.

-Employees want & need to play active role in designing & controlling their jobs

• -EP results in a healthy industrial climate & improved organizational performance
• - As constituent of an orgns, employees have the right to participate

• 1. Psychological theory
• 2. Organizaitonal theory
• 3. Political Theory
• 4. Sociological Theory

• Employees seek psychological satisfaction from work they perform
•  Satisfaction is derived when they have freedom & discretion
•  Satisfaction declines when close supervision & repetitive work
•  Human relations & neo-human relations school of thought – Maslow's Hierarchy of need

• EP enhances orgns efficiency via improvement of communications
•  Quality approach of decision making
•  Improve understanding of customer needs
•  Promote harmony in management-employee relationship

•  EP is justified – political utilitarianism
•  Management decisions is justified only when all stakeholders participate in that decision making
•  When decisions maximizes the benefit of all affected
•  EP contributes to the common good of all involved parties

•  Better education of workforce increases professionalism & improved intellectual & technological capabilities
•  EP narrows professional gaps between management & workers
•  As constituent of an orgns, employees have the right to participate

• 1. Participation in Management
• 2. Participation in Financial Success
• 3. Combination Participation

• Joint consultation
• Quality circle
• Job enrichment
• Autonomous workgroups
• Co-management
• Collective bargaining

• Profit sharing
• Share holding

• Productivity gain sharing
• Producer co-operative