... 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...

... of empowerment, and discuss the evidence as to its impact. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Employee involvement Empowerment Human resource management TQM Participation For employers to be empowered, information is a central component. There has been a great deal of interest in recent years...

... of the remuneration scheme was to harness the contribution of the individual at job/task level within the normal working team. This perspective 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...

... 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...

... 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...