Motivation Through Employee Participation

Participative Management

Empowering employees to assume greater control of the workplace

—  Setting goals

—  Making decisions

—  Solving problems

—  Designing and implementing organizational changes

Three approaches to participation

—  Establish a survey-driven process

—  Analyze survey data department by department

—  Address problems head on

Open Book Management: Sharing key financial data and profits with employees who are trained and empowered

Self-Managed Teams: High-performance teams that assume traditional managerial duties such as staffing and planning

—  Jobs are vertically loaded

—  Manager resistance is the number one barrier

The Four STEP Approach to Open-Book Management

Keys to Successful Employee Participation Programs

Building Employee Support for Participation

—  A profit-sharing or gain-sharing plan

—  A long-term employment relationship with good job security

—  A concerted effort to build and maintain group cohesiveness

—  Protection of the individual employee’s rights