International Handbook of Participation in Organizations: The Challenge of New Technology and Macro Political Change v.3

The objective of this series is to provide policy-makers, practitioners and academics with well-informed comparative research and analysis on developments in participative practices in organizations. The present volume focuses in particular on the issues of technology and participation; and the far-reaching macro-political influences on organizations in the 1980s and 1990s. Several articles reflect the clear ideological shift where the values of workplace democracy and participation have been challenged by demands for greater productivity, competition and effectiveness. New perspectives and research findings are offered in relation to issues such as employment equity, stock ownership schemes, information technology, "social dialogue" in Europe, and managerial behaviour in the former Soviet Union. The volume also includes significant contributions in the area of corporatism, capital markets for worker-owned firms and the role of leadership in work environment reforms. The present volume includes 22 contributions covering a broad spectrum of national contexts. This volume also includes abstracts of all papers published in this and the proceeding volumes of this distinguished series.Table of ContentPart 1 Evaluation and review of the field: implementing employment equity - the role of participation in organizational change, Carol Agocs; workplace participation as organizational adaptation and legitimation - a comparison of employee stock-ownership plans and quality of worklife programmes in the USA, Rudy Fenwick and John F. Zipp. Part 2 Landmarks revisited: overcoming resistance to change - a rebuttal to criticism of three seminal studies, William M. Fox. Part 3 Recent theoretical developments: participation in goal-setting - a motivational approach, Miriam Erez; from participation as a management tool to participation as a regulatory principle, Alain Chouraqui. Part 4 Recent research findings: participation in complex organizational decisions - a comparative study of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Yugolslavia, Paul L. Koopman et al; effects of worker participation in the USA - managers' perceptions versus empirical measures, Patrick M. Rooney; employee attitudes to profit-sharing and employee shareholding schemes, Michael Poole and Glen Jenkins. Part 5 Country studies: the impact of information technology and international competition on organizational democracy - the case of South Korea, Robert Doktor and John Lie; profit-sharing and gain sharing in France, Jacques Rojot; worker participation in Bulgaria - past and current developments, Dobrinka Kostova; the rebirth of tripartism in the Netherlands, W. Albeda; perestroika and managerial decision-making - the Soviet manager's view, Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer. Part 6 Participation and technology: integrating employee participation, work design and new technology experience in the United States, Thomas Kochan et al; democratization of the worlds of life and work - the "So-Tech Programme" of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ulrich von Alemann and Georg Simonis; corporate culture, participation and pseudo-participation in a high-tech company, Mats Alvesson; social dialogue in Europe - strategies for participation in technological change, Vittorio Di Martino. Part 7 The macro context of organizational democracy: corporatism as organizational practice and political theory, Phillipe C. Schmitter; capital markets and worker ownership, David P. Ellerman; macro-strategies for the democratization of capital - a comparison of the Norwegian and Swedish experiences, Ove Langeland; is more corporatism a necessary condition of workplace democracy? the Canadian experience, David Laycock; implementing work-environment reforms in Norway - the interplay between leadership, labour and law, Ragnvald Kalleberg.