Opening up management style

Readers of ICT will long have been aware of the growing pressures for developing more effective and open styles of management with employee involvement. During the last three years we have published many articles on practical employee participation: information disclosure, added value systems of measurement, effective project groups, integrating the company with the community together with numerous pertinent comments from John Wellens. But have the readers recognised how much effect these articles, and others, have had on our national management systems and policies—the Government's move to develop an open style society?