1. Collaboration Meaning
 The dictionary meaning of
collaboration is working with
someone to produce or create
something.
 It means taking decision/
implementing relating to various
organization issues jointly by the
manager and worker’s.

2. Objective
 To prevent worker exploitation
 Growth of the company economy
through democratic process
 To resolve the conflicts between
workers and management
 Sharing information about collective
bargaining process

3. Intervention
 Autonomous work group
 Industrial democracy
 socio-technical systems
 Suggestions schemes

4. WORKER’S
PARTICIPATION IN
MANAGEMENT

5. Meaning of WPM
WPM is a system of communication and
consultation, either formal or informal, by
which employees of an organization are
kept informed about the affairs of an
undertaking and through which they
express their opinion and contribute to
mgt decisions.

6. Objectives of WPM
 Increasing productivity for the general
benefit of the enterprise, the employees
and the community;
 Giving employees a better understanding
of their role in the working of the industry
& of the production process; and
 Satisfying the worker’s urge for self-
expression, thus leading to industrial
peace, better relations and increased co-
operation.

7. Forms of WPM
 Informative & associative
participation
 Consultative participation
 Administrative participation
 Decision participation

8. Participative forums in India
 Works committees;
 Joint mgt. Councils;
 Joint councils;
 Unit councils;
 Plant councils;
 Shop councils;
 Workers’ representative on the board of
mgt; and
 Workers’ participation in share capital.

9. Conditions necessary for effective
working of the scheme
 Congenial work environment
 Well defined roles
 Faith in the efficacy of the scheme
 Wide publicity
 Should be evolutionary
 Free flow of information throughout the
enterprise
 Should be based on mutual trust
 Decisions taken by different participatory
forums must be sincerely carried out in
the stipulated time

10. Reasons for failure of WPM
 Ideological differences between the employer
and the employees regarding the degree of
participation.
 Failure to imbibe the spirit of participation by the
parties
 Multiplicity of participative forums
 Lack of strong trade unionism
 Unhappy IR
 Illiteracy of workers
 Non co-operative attitude of the working class
 Delays in the implementation of the decisions of
the participative bodies