{"product_id":"9780802064707","title":"Workplace Democracy: An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values of organizational members; the administrative structure of the organization; the interpersonal and intergroup processes; the reactions and adjustments of organization members; the social, political, economic, and cultural environments of the organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sample of 20 industrial organizations was selected to examine the effects of significant employee participation and to test the theory. They are matched pairs: ten permit some form of participation, and ten—similar in size, location, industry, union\/non-union status, and work technology—follow conventional hierarchical design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resulting data demonstrate that greater productivity results from employee participation in decisions relating to their work, in productivity bonuses, and in profit sharing and employee share-ownership plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007667060976,"sku":"9780802064707","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802064707_p0.jpg?v=1763726340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802064707","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}