DEFINITION:

According to Davis, It is a mental & emotional involvement of a person in a group situation which encourages him to contribute to goals & share responsibilities in them.

FIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF PARTICIPATION:

Informative Participation Consultative Participation Associative Participation Administrative Participation Decisive Participative

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Unique motivational power and a great psychological value. Peace and harmony between workers and mangament. Workers get to see how their action would contribute to the over all growth to the company. They tend to view the decisions as their own and are more enthusiastic in their implementation.

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Participation makes them more responsible. They become more willing to take initiative and come out with cost- saving suggestions and growth oriented ideas.

FORMS OF WPM

Suggestion schemes Works committee Joint management councils Work directors Co-partnership Joint councils Shop councils

IMPACT OF WPM

Job satisfaction Employee productivity Employee commitment Better use of time and resources Less industrial disputes

CHALLENGES OF WPM

Inability to see beyond your own job description and see the meaning in learning new skills. Reacting aggressively to challenges rather than calmly analyzing your own contribution to the problem and what you do about it. New technologies should be adopted by the employees for higher productivity for the development of organization.

PRE-REQUISITES FOR EFFECTIVE

PARTICIPATION

there should be a strong democratic and representative unionism for the success of participative management. there should be mutually-agreed and clearlyformulated objectives for participation to succeed. there should be a feeling of participation at all levels. There should be effective consultation of the workers by the management.

Both the management and the workers must have full faith in the sound mix of the philosophy underlying the concept of labour participation. Till the participative structure is fully accepted by the parties, legislative supportive necessary to ensure that rights of each other are recognized and protected. Education and training make a significant contribution to the purposeful working of participative management. Forums of participation, areas of participation and guidelines for implementation of decisions should be specification and there should be prompt followup action and feedback.