Author: George M. Kandathil Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498505686 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
This monograph narrates the decade-long struggle of workers, unions, and management in transforming one of the largest ailing family-owned jute businesses in India, into a sustainable worker-owned and governed cooperative. It focuses on the variation in the three groups’ involvement in the transformation. It begins with the employees’ struggles in taking over the business, deserted by its owners, to save their jobs. The study analyzes the tensions between the three groups in creating and maintaining democratic governance that would sustain the initial leap in employee participation in the transformation. The analysis reveals contradictions at multiple levels, starting with the unexpected outcome of information sharing with workers: increased information sharing by management resulting in decreased employee involvement. The study explains this paradox by showing that for workers, information has a symbolic nature and information sharing is a signal of their trustworthiness in the assessment of those who are privy to the information. This means involvement is contingent upon the feeling that the information that workers consider crucial is being shared with them. However, what workers consider crucial, and thus a symbol of trust, changes over time as the nature and breadth of their involvement evolves. Thus, worker expectation as well as management and union expectation of information sharing evolves. However, the evolution has the potential to create a mismatch between the two expectations that might lead to contradictions in employee involvement. While for management, information sharing is an instrument in eliciting involvement, and thus management’s expectation of information sharing goes through an instrumental loop, for employees, information sharing is a matter of trust, and thus their expectation of information sharing goes through an institutional trust-based loop. To sustain high employee involvement, the organization should ideally institutionalize the trust-based loop and avoid engaging with the instrumental loop. The author proposes a collaborative approach to organizational transformation that will help deal with the contradictions more effectively, sustaining employee involvement in the transformation. The author also discusses the implications of these propositions for academic scholarship and organizational practices and situates them in the ongoing attempts to reform Industrial Disputes Act in India.
Author: Frank E. P. Dievernich Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319074342 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 263
Book Description
Change management and organizational development is unthinkable without people. Human beings form its core as both subjects and objects of change. This volume attempts to cut through to the core of change management, to the people that stand at its heart and focuses on their intrinsic role in change management and organizational development. Topics covered in this volume encompass the human element within organizational change, how this impacts roles, dynamics of team interaction and affects the workplace in teaching and learning settings. It also addresses resistance to institutional and organizational change and the central role that agile management plays in this process.
Author: Rohit Varman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009193414 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 379
Book Description
It examines political economy of neoliberalism and curates contemporary case studies of resistance and alternative organizing in India.
Author: Stefan Berger Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137481927 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 647
Book Description
Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains, economic life, inter-cultural exchange and knowledge, as well as the mobility of persons and ideas increasingly cross the borders of nation-states. In the knowledge age, the active participation of workers in organizations is crucially important for sustainable and long-term growth and innovation. This handbook offers lessons from historical, global accounts of workers’ participation at plant level, even as it looks forward to predict forthcoming trends in participation.
Author: Knights, David Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK) ISBN: 0335206840 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
Drawing on case studies from the UK manufacturing and financial service sectors, this book argues that the emergence and popularity of a new range of management innovations reflects and facilitates the reproduction of a neo-liberal economics that has dominated Western politics for over almost a quarter of a century.
Author: Edward E. Lawler, III Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: 9781555423308 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall levels in organizations.
Author: Marshall Scott Poole Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195135008 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 446
Book Description
In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.
Author: Constantine Andriopoulos Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1446243923 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 393
Book Description
"I would urge anyone with an interest in managing organisations, whether they be students or practising managers, to buy this book" - Bernard Burnes, Professor of Organisational Change, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester "Change is truly the one constant in business. As such, the ability to manage change and its drivers of innovation and creativity is essential. Thankfully, Andriopoulos and Dawson offer an exceptional treatise on this domain, insightful and engaging. I encourage management students at all levels to explore this work" - Marianne W. Lewis, Director of Kolodzik Business Scholars, University of Cincinnati Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation brings together comprehensive aspects of change management and creativity management, providing management and HR students with an accessible and wide-ranging resource for study, debate and inspiration. Balancing theory with practice, this book looks at the human side of managing change and creativity, treating them as interdependent aspects of management and organizations. Topics include: - Historical overview of business practice and theory - Understanding creativity and change - Managing individuals, teams and nurturing creativity - The creative economy and future of organizations Features include: - Coverage of all the important recent research in the field - Real-life topical case studies taken from the Financial Times - Interactive resources at the end of each chapter, including questions, exercises, topics for debate, recommended reading and web resources
Author: Paul Edwards Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1405142022 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 552
Book Description
This is a completely revised and updated second edition of the acclaimed Industrial Relations. The new book gives particular attention throughout to the effects of international and European developments on British Industrial Relations.
Author: George M. Kandathil
Author: Frank E. P. Dievernich
Author: Rohit Varman
Author: Wolfgang G. Weber
Author: Stefan Berger
Author: Knights, David
Author: Edward E. Lawler, III
Author: Marshall Scott Poole
Author: Constantine Andriopoulos
Author: Paul Edwards