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- catalog abstract ""This book integrates the various facts, theories, and applications concerning participation and empowerment in organizational settings. Through the extensive use of graphs and tables, the book traces the origins of worker participation in management and decision making, examines the repertoire of empowerment and participatory techniques as applied throughout the world, and assesses, by means of empirical evidence, which techniques work best. Participation and empowerment are discussed in relationship to other current issues in management and organizational research including leadership, goal setting, problem solving, and cultural differences that may need to be considered in a global economic environment."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11480771.
- catalog contributor b11480772.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""This book integrates the various facts, theories, and applications concerning participation and empowerment in organizational settings. Through the extensive use of graphs and tables, the book traces the origins of worker participation in management and decision making, examines the repertoire of empowerment and participatory techniques as applied throughout the world, and assesses, by means of empirical evidence, which techniques work best. Participation and empowerment are discussed in relationship to other current issues in management and organizational research including leadership, goal setting, problem solving, and cultural differences that may need to be considered in a global economic environment."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / John L. Cotton -- Employee Participation--What Does it Mean? -- American and European Views of Employee Participation -- Employee Participation Throughout the World -- The Dynamics of Group Decisions: Motivational and Cognitive Factors -- Motivational Facilitators: Enhancing the Acceptance of Joint Decisions -- Cognitive Facilitators: Improving the Quality of Joint Decisions -- Inhibitors of the PDM-Work Outcomes Relationship -- Strategies to Enhance Group Problem Solving and Decision Making -- Empirical Research on Employee Participation -- Coch and French's Pilot Study -- Quantitative Summaries of the PDM Research -- The Cotton-Wagner Dispute Regarding PDM Effectiveness -- Is PDM as Good as Alternative Practices? -- Are All Applications of PDM Equally Effective? -- Leadership and Participation -- Theories of Leadership Style -- Situational Models of Leadership -- Strategic Versus Tactical Decisions -- Participation, Direction, and Transformational Leadership -- The Theory of Loose-Tight Leadership -- Participation in Goal Setting -- Participative Goal Setting and Task Performance -- Participative Goal Setting and Job-Related Attitudes -- Employee Empowerment -- Delegation -- Means of Empowerment -- The Sociotechnical Approach -- Self-Managing Work Teams -- Psychological Empowerment -- Applications of Participation and Empowerment -- Job Enrichment and Job Redesign -- Management by Objectives -- Quality of Working Life -- Quality Circles and Total Quality Management.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-136) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 144 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Participation and empowerment in organizations.".
- catalog identifier "0761907343 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0761907351 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Participation and empowerment in organizations.".
- catalog isPartOf "Advanced topics in organizational behavior".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications,".
- catalog relation "Participation and empowerment in organizations.".
- catalog subject "658.3/152 21".
- catalog subject "Employee empowerment.".
- catalog subject "HD5650 .S28 2000".
- catalog subject "Industrial management Employee participation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / John L. Cotton -- Employee Participation--What Does it Mean? -- American and European Views of Employee Participation -- Employee Participation Throughout the World -- The Dynamics of Group Decisions: Motivational and Cognitive Factors -- Motivational Facilitators: Enhancing the Acceptance of Joint Decisions -- Cognitive Facilitators: Improving the Quality of Joint Decisions -- Inhibitors of the PDM-Work Outcomes Relationship -- Strategies to Enhance Group Problem Solving and Decision Making -- Empirical Research on Employee Participation -- Coch and French's Pilot Study -- Quantitative Summaries of the PDM Research -- The Cotton-Wagner Dispute Regarding PDM Effectiveness -- Is PDM as Good as Alternative Practices? -- Are All Applications of PDM Equally Effective? -- Leadership and Participation -- Theories of Leadership Style -- Situational Models of Leadership -- Strategic Versus Tactical Decisions -- Participation, Direction, and Transformational Leadership -- The Theory of Loose-Tight Leadership -- Participation in Goal Setting -- Participative Goal Setting and Task Performance -- Participative Goal Setting and Job-Related Attitudes -- Employee Empowerment -- Delegation -- Means of Empowerment -- The Sociotechnical Approach -- Self-Managing Work Teams -- Psychological Empowerment -- Applications of Participation and Empowerment -- Job Enrichment and Job Redesign -- Management by Objectives -- Quality of Working Life -- Quality Circles and Total Quality Management.".
- catalog title "Participation and empowerment in organizations : modeling, effectiveness, and applications / Abraham Sagie, Meni Koslowsky.".
- catalog type "text".