...Ann Howard Finds in a study across 25 organizations more talk about high‐involvement leadership than effective implementation. Part of the problem was that senior managers wore rose‐coloured glasses when viewing high involvement in their organizations, which obscured the need for more action...

..., ideas of worker participation have undergone a transformation. The focus of these initiatives has been redirected, squarely, at the problem of competitiveness and this has called for a different form of input from workers[ 6 ]. Thus, worker involvement has been redirected away from joint regulation...

... and developed into a program of involving employees in the decision‐making process[ 1, p. 8 ].“Consultative management” developed and was implemented extensively by the Japanese, who helped prove the successfulness of this application. The Japanese utilized the idea of making the employees responsible...

..., extending people beyond their current capability, developing their full potential. Finally, the visionary enabler creates a broad climate of commitment in the organization through a sense of belonging and excitement in the job. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Delegation Empowerment Involvement...