WORKER’S

PARTICIPATION
IN
MANAGEMENT
WPM :-

It is considered as a Mechanism
where worker’s have a say in the
decision-making process of an
enterprise formally
Definition

According to Davis,
“It is a mental and emotional involvement
of a person in a group situation which
encourages him to contribute to goals
and share responsibilities in them.
Objectives
 To promote increased productivity for
the advantage of the organization,
workers and society at large.

 To provide a better understanding to

employees about their role and place in
the process of attainment of
organizational goals.
 To satisfy the workers social and esteem
needs.
 To strengthen labour management co-
operation and thus maintaining industrial
peace and harmony.
 To develop social education for effective
solidarity among the working community
and for tapping latent human resources.
 An ideological point of view to develop self
management in industry.
 To build the most dynamic human
resources.
Forms of WPM
 Works Committee

 Joint Management Councils

 Joint Councils

 Shop Councils
Reasons for the limited success of WPM

 The inherent conflicts between

employees and management
 The general belief that the workers are
inferior to management
 The fact that the system is management
dominated
 The view that managers are averse to
share responsibility
Suggestions for the success of WPM
 There should be mutual trust and faith
among all the parties concerned
 There should be progressive management
in the enterprise and should recognize its
obligations and responsibilities towards
works and trade unions
 There should be strong democratic and
representative unions which should
represent the cause of workers without
neglecting the management interest
 All parties concerned towards
participative management should feel
that they should participate at all levels
 Both the parties should develop a
favourable attitude towards the schemes
and effective management
 Management and government should
provide training to prepare them for
participative management
Thank you