Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Submitted by:
Ujjwal Mishra
Satish Arya
Nidhi Kumari
Tarun Talreja
Table of content
• Definition
• Aspect of employee involvement
• Encouraging employee involvement
• Levels of Employee Involvement
• How involvement improves decisions
• Outcomes of Employee Involvement
• Overcoming Involvement Challenges
• Forms of employee involvement
• References
Employee involvement
• Employee motivation
• Employee empowerment
• Teams and team work
• Performance appraisal
Encourage Employee Involvement
Contd……
Encourage Employee Involvement
• Give a brief survey to your staff that is made up of
open-ended questions that ask for specific
improvement ideas
• Review every response
• Create a team to implement the easiest ideas that can
have the greatest positive impact
Levels of Employee Involvement
• Cultural Differences
• Better in collectivist and low power distance cultures
• Management Resistance
• Educate/train managers to become facilitators
• Employee and Union Resistance
• Concerns about increased stress, giving up union
rights, and union power
• Solution is trust and involvement
Example of employee involvement
1. Participative Management
2. Representative participation
3. Quality circles
Participative Management
• Characteristics
• Volunteers
• Set Rules and Priorities
• Decisions made by Consensus
• Use of organized approaches to Problem-Solving
How Do Quality Circles Work?
• Increase Productivity
• Improve Quality
• Boost Employee Morale
Problems with Quality Circles
• Inadequate Training
• Unsure of Purpose
• Not truly Voluntary
• Lack of Management Interest
• Without empowerment and support of the
management staff, circles will not have the resources
provided to them to be successful.
References
• http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossarye/a/employee_inv.htm
• http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-employee-
inv.pdf
• University consulting alliance by Robert Bullock, Scontrino-Powell
• http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/karthikasenthil-219969-
employee-involvement-tqm-education-ppt-powerpoint/
• http://management-
class.com/courseware/int_mgmnt/mcshane/ppt_ch09.pdf
• J L Cotton, Employee Involvement: Methods for improving Performance
and work attitude (Newbury Park, CA: Sage publication,1993), pp. 129-
30, 139-40.