UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...

IMPORTANCE OF PARTICIPATION
• The greatest benefit of participative management is that the employee identifies
himself or herself with the wok and this leads to an improved performance.
• Participation tends to improve motivation because employees feel more accepted
and involved in the situation. Their self-esteem, job satisfaction, and cooperation
with the management will also improve.
• Reduced conflict and stress, more commitment to goals, better acceptance of a
change.
• Employees may also reduce turnover and absences when they begin to feel that
working conditions are satisfactory and that they are becoming more successful in
their jobs.
• The act of participation in itself establishes better communication, as people
mutually discuss work problems. The management tends to provide workers with
increased information about the organization’s finances and operations, and this
helps employees to give better quality suggestions.
• Participative management has ethical dimensions also. The ethical orientation
stems from:
Morality the impartial promotion of human welfare
Recognize the inherent value and dignity of the human being
The self-worth of the individual enhances
Participation relates to the mental and physical health of employees
Ethical justification for worker participation is derived from negative consequences
of hierarchical and authoritarian organizations of work.
WORKERS PARTICIPATION IN INDIA
In India, according to the industrial policy resolution, 1956, he aim of the government in
advocating worker’s participation in management is to create a socialist society where
workers share the managerial powers. In second Five-year plan, the purpose of worker’s
participation was defined as follows:
• Increasing productivity for general benefit of the enterprise, employees and
community;
• Giving employees a better understanding of their role in the working of the
industry and of the process of production