... as actively supporting and participating in local campaigns and initiatives. For example, the researchers had previously studied a local joint parent and/or trade union campaign to save public pre-school nurseries and provided research insights into a national trade union campaign for decent minimum standards...

..., and this paper draws specifically on ethnographic research on two teams and their managers in broadcasting. Drawing on theoretical insights, it suggests that teamworking results in a fundamental contradiction involving a “soft” discourse versus a regime of increasing managerial control. Participation is measured...

...John A. Parnell; William “Rick” Crandall Revisits Parnell and Bell’s arguments that managers have different propensities for participative decision making (PPDM) and develops a modified scale to measure the construct which includes commitment and cultural components. Specifically, findings suggest...

...Gillian Shapiro Recent studies have found that initiatives relying on the participation and development of employees, such as TQM, can struggle if different kinds of employees are not involved equally. For instance, part‐time workers, administrative or shift staff often receive less training...

... Employee involvement Empowerment Human resource management TQM Participation In recent years, the term empowerment has become part of everyday management language (Collins, 1994; Cunningham et al., 1996; Hennestad, 1998; Wilkinson, 1998). It has also been associated with popular...

..., and from the differing levels of staff. One to one interviews were also used and again these were semi‐structured. Communications Employees Gainsharing Organizational change Participation Teamwork The results of the research did indicate that communication in a broad sense had taken place...

... co-operated in changes to working practices. However, this involvement did not involve participation in the decision-making process, and the authoritarian nature of change in this period is readily acknowledged by senior managers. Co-operation was attributed to what the managing director referred...

...Alan Hurst Illustrates the way in which, within the current debate about widening the participation rates of under‐represented groups in higher education, the situation of people with disabilities has tended to be overlooked by commenting in detail on three recent policy documents. Also interprets...

... of superordinates then the "style" of the "boss" must be participative Theory Y, 9/9, or something similar. When the boss's behaviour moves along the scale from X to Y then the subordinate's attitudes to him change and their behaviour then changes for the better. When top management wants to make changes...