... vouchers for individual workers who were research participants and to arrange in-person workshops to discuss the findings. The initial grant will be used as the basis to apply for a larger local government grant involving the wider project group. Eva Herman can be contacted at: eva.herman...

..., 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...

... 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 management...

... of involvement at job level is similar to the “soft on power” focus as described by Clegg et al.[ 7 ]. Participation is kept to day‐to‐day operational issues and involves no significant transfer of decision making power from management to work group. The third Workplace Industrial Relations...

... Industrial democracy Industrial relations Organizational change Participation Turnarounds Personnel Review 22,2 22 Refashioning Industrial Relations: The Experience of a Chemical Company over the Last Decade Adrian Wilkinson, Mick Marchington and John Goodman Manchester School of Management, UMIST, UK...

...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...

... Organizational change Participation Bottom up decision making Top‐down decision making 4 PERSONNEL REVIEW 20,3 C hange can be successfully introduced by utilising the knowledge of employees and empowering them to take decisions. Organisational Change: "Top-down" or "Bottom-up" Management? "Top-down...