WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT – A MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Allowing workers to take part in management decision making has been always a controversial topic. Management’s prerogatives are the major issue for this controversial. The pressures are experienced by the business leaders due to increasing participation from workers that are once exclusively reserved for management. It is general perception that the management is afraid at legal and quasi legal schemes of participation will increase employees' and trade-unions' influence and can erode managerial control. At the same time if the workers are not allowed to participate in the management decision making process, their performance will come down and eventually which can lead to reduction in management effectiveness or organizational effectiveness. Therefore to ascertain what extent these fears are justified and how the enterprise operating in a democratic framework, age, experience of workers and satisfaction with existing management practices are taken into account for the analysis. From the analysis it is found that there is relationship between Age, Workers Participation and effectiveness of organization, there is no relationship between Year of Experience and Satisfaction with the existing management practice.