Workers’ Participation in Management

This book is in outcome of indepth research on the practice of worker’s participation in Management (WPM) in industrial organizations in India. It is written for the benefit of both theoreticians and practitioners, covering a bigger canvas. In this book one can find case studies on organizations of the old economy to today’s digital enterprises. Accordingl, there are case studies ranging from the Indian railways. Tata Iron and Steel Company (now Tata Steel), to Lucas-TVS Ltd., and Infosys. This book is not just confined to new models and success stories. It covers the failure experiments like the HTL and Kamani Tubes Ltd. Presented with the same scientific analysis. Case studies of eleven large and complex organizations practicing participative management in one form or other are presented in the book. They are (!) infosys technologies, (2) Tata Steel, (3) Lucas-TVS Ltd., (HTL, (5) ECIL, (6) BHEL, (7) OCF, (8) Cochin Ship Yard, (9) ETPS, (10) Indian railways and (11) Kamani Tubes Ltd. The sources of information included persptions of managers and non-managers about the concept and practice of WPM measured through psychometric scales and ranking methods, information and opinions on WPM extracted through structures and unstructured interviews and questionnaires from trade union leaders, political party leaders and data analysed from published and unpublished material on WPM with reference to organizations is presented in this book, keeping in view the study requirements of post graduate and research students, senior scholars and college and university teachers in social sciences, commerce and business management. The case studies are very exhaustive with lot of statistically analysed data and they are expected to meet the needs of teachers of M.B.A/PGDBA programmes, executive trainers and public policy trainers involved in training civil servants of the state and central governments. The long list of practicable and practical suggestions and new insights presented in this book will be useful to the managers and executives of both public and private sector enterprises.