High-Involvement Management

Examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall levels in organizations.

Part One: The Promise of Participative Management. 1. Changing Approaches to Management. 2. Why Participative Approaches Meet Today's Needs. 3. Participation and Organizational Effectiveness. Part Two: Participative Programs: What Works and Does NotWork. 4. Quality Circles. 5. Employee Survey Feedback. 6. Job Enrichment. 7. Work Teams. 8. Union-Management Quality-of-Work-Life Programs. 9. Gainsharing. 10. New-Design Plants. Part Three: High-Involvement Management: Creating an EffectiveApproach to Participation. 11. How High-Involvement Management Works. 12. Managing the Change to a High-Involvement Organization.