FUNCTIONAL

MANAGEMENT
TOPIC
PARTICIPATION OF WORKERS

PRESENTED BY –
SURAJ KUMAR
ROLL NO. 350
CLASS – B.COM 2ND SEM
 WPM
WOKERS’S PARTICIPATION IN
MANAEGEMENT IS A SYSTEM WHERE
WORKERS AND
MANAGEMENT SHARE IMPORTANT
INFORMATION WITH EACH OTHER AND
PARTICIPATE IN DECISION TAKING.
 WPM encompasses the
following:-
• It provides scope for employees in decision -
making of the organization.
• The participation may be at the shop level,
departmental level or at the top level.
• The participation includes the willingness to
share the responsibility of the organization
by the workers.
 Definition of WPM
A system of communication and consultation,
either formal or informal, by which employees of
an organization are kept informed about the
affairs of the undertaking and through which
they express their opinion and contribute to
participation refers to the mental and emotional
involvement of a person in a group situation
which encourages him to contribute to group
goals and share the responsibility of
achievement.
 OBJECTIVE
• To elevate worker’s status in industry.
• To promote democratic pratice.
• Increase productivity with joint efforts.
• Promote cordial relations.
• Prevent exploitaion of workers.
 FORMS OF PARTICIPATION
• Consultative participation
• Informative participation
• Administrative participation
• Associative participation
• Decision / Decisive participation
• Ownership participation
 1. CONSULTATIVE
• Involves a high degree of sharing of view of
the members and giving them an
opportunity to express their feelings.
• Members are consulted on matters such as
:-
1. Welfare amenities (work, health)
2. Adoption of New Technology
 2. INFORMATION
• It ensures that employees are able to receive
information and express their views pertaining
to the matters of :-
- General economic situation.
- The state of market, production & sales
programes.
- Organisation & general running of
undertaking.
 3. ADMINSTRATIVE
• Involves a greater degree of sharing of
authority and responsibility of
management
functions.
• It ensures greater shares of workers’
participation in discharge of managerial
functions.
 4. DECISION
• Highest form of participation.
• Maximum delegation of authority and
resopnsiblity of management function.
• Matters concerned are
- Economic
- Production
- Welfare
- Financial
 5. ASSOCIATIVE
• Extension of consultative participation
• Management here is under the moral
obligation to accept and implement the
agreed decisions of the employees.
 LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION
1. Collective Bargaining
2. Works committees
3. Shop / Department council
4. Joint councils
5. Board Representations
6. Workers Ownership of Enterprise
7. Quality Circles
8. Kaizen
 LOOPHOLES IN COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING
• The process of CB cannot be called WPM in
its strongest sense as in reality :-

- CB is based on crude concept of

exercising
power for the benefit of one party.
 2. WORKS COMMITTEES
• Under the industrial disputes act, 1947,
every establishment employing 100 or more
workers is required to constitutes a works
committees.
• It consists of equal number of representatives
from the employer and the employees.
FUNCTIONS OF WORK COMMITTEE
• Works committee deals with matter of day
to day functioning at the shop floor level.
Works committiees are concerned with :
- Conditions of work such as ventilation,
lighting and sanitaion.
- Safety measures, accident prevention
mechanisms etc.
 FUNCTIONS OF JOINT COUNCIL
• Fixation of production norms
• Work planning
• Achieving production targets
• Training
• Reward policy
• Creative suggestions
• Health