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Employee involvement and participation

Introduction
Employee participation Employee involvement

There are different forms of employee paticipation


Consultation
Collective bargaining decision making

Co-management
Self-management Financial particiption

Objectives for employee ivolvement

How to get employee involved


need to be given the authority to participate in

substantive decisions employees need to have the appropriate decisionmaking skills Incentives to participate

Implementation for employee participation


suggestions schemes
Task forces and team Dedicated work teams

job enrichment
Stock-ownership plans

There are essential ingredients for the success of employee participation


Management commitment and management style
ongoing assessment of participative Incentives and rewards,

Benefits of employee involvement and participation to the organization and its employees
employees see daily more than employers do while on

the job employees are closer to the people inlvoved at the level of buying/ selling employees will know all it takes to run a company.

Conclusion
When employees participate in the decision-making process, they improve understanding and perceptions among colleagues and superiors, and enhance personnel value in the organization (Probst, 2005). Having considered a number of perspectives, it is clear that employee participation is central to the HRM debate and modern organizational practices.

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