“Workers Participation in Management" in Bharat Heavy

Electrical Limited

This Project Report is on Workers Participation in Management {WPM} of Bharat Heavy

Electrical Limited {BHEL}, Project Report, Economic Decisions, Social Decisions of
Employees

Workers Participation in Management

It is the process, by which authority and responsibility of managing industry are shared with
workers.

Three groups of managerial decisions affect the workers of any industrial establishment and
hence the workers must have a say in it

Economic Decisions – Economic Decisions like methods of manufacturing, automation,

shutdown, lay-offs, mergers.

Personnel Decisions – Personnel Decisions like recruitment and selection, promotions,

demotions, transfers, grievance settlement, work distribution.

Social Decisions – Social Decisions like hours of work, welfare measures, questions affecting
work rules and conduct of individual worker’s safety, health, sanitation and noise control.

In practice, the participation of employees/workers can take place by one or all the methods
listed below:

 Board level participation

 Ownership participation
 Complete control
 Staff or work councils
 Joint councils and committees
 Collective Bargaining
 Job enlargement and enrichment
 Suggestion schemes
 Quality circles
 Empowered teams
 Total Quality Management [TQM]
 Financial participation

Significance of Study Workers Participation in Management [WPM] in BHEL :

1. To improve the efficiency of enterprise.

 2. To establish harmonious industrial relation
3. To attain industrial peace and harmony
4. To give the workers and acceptable status.
5. To develop self management in the industry.
6. To increase the productivity level with mutual understanding
7. Easy to implement the change may by possible by WPM
8. Information sharing and decision making
9. Improving the self control degree.

Factor considering by BHEL in Employees/Workers Participation in Management [WPM] :

 The type of decision

 Subject matter of participation
 Level of participation
 Subsidiary level
 Time factor
 Extend of participation
 Significance of decision
 Industrial practices
 Past experience data
 Degree of possibility
 No. of workers
 Methods of participation
 Managerial views regarding workers

Objectives of Project Report

Objectives of Project Report shoes the ultimate aim for doing the work on project these are as
follows-

1. To analyze about the various methods of workers participation in management [WPM]

2. To determine the criteria for workers participation in management
3. To analyze about the various results and effectiveness in regarding of workers
participation in management [WPM] to BHEL
4. To determine the factors for workers participation in management [WPM]
5. To analysis about the challenges faced by BHEL for workers participation in
management [WPM]
6. To analyze about the full concept of workers participation in management.

Research Methodology

Research Methodology (also called manner) is defined as

"the systematic study of methods that are, can be, or have been applied within a discipline".

Research Methods
The goal of the research process is to produce new knowledge. Some of research methods are:

Exploratory Research : Exploratory research, which structures and identifies new problems

Constructive Research : Constructive research, which develops solutions to a problem

Empirical Research : Empirical research, which tests the feasibility of a solution using
empirical evidence

As discussed previous the main approaches of research,

Here I used in this project report on Workers Participation in Management [WPM], an

exploratory research approach.

Analysis and interpretation

BHEL focus three main principle for WPM

a. Experience
b. Possibilities
c. People building and mutual development.

Ways and methods of WPM in BHEL

Maximum adopt the method of Q.C.C and T.Q.M

Findings

 BHEL also focus on saving plans through WPM

 There are various constraints and challenges of WPM in BHEL such as secrecy level
managerial attitude industrial practices degree participation and nature of decision
 BHEL mainly focus on QCC and TQM for WPM and other methods are simultaneously
adopt.
 Possibility and experience are two main principle for WPM in BHEL

Conclusion

As we can conclude that WPM is very important tool for productivity increased harmonious
relationship and industrial growth. There are various methods of WPM, but QCC and TQM are
mostly followed by BHEL.