Cooperative Workplace Potentials and Dilemmas of Organisational Democracy and Participation

Name: Cooperative Workplace Potentials and Dilemmas of Organisational Democracy and Participation
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ISBN: 9780521379427

ISBN-10: 0521379423

ISBN-13: 9780521379427

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Authors: Joyce Rothschild-Whitt, J. Allen Whitt

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Over the last several years worker cooperatives of many kinds have sprung up all around the world. As a result, industrial relations in the workplace have changed dramatically as workers have come to own and run their own enterprises. This book provides for the first time evidence on how these new enterprises are functioning today. Using evidence from their extensive research in various such firms, the authors identify the consequences for both the organisation and the workers when those who do the work also manage. Setting forth an original theory of democratic organisations, they reveal the very real dilemmas and trade-offs that democratic work organisations face, as well as the specific…

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List price: $45.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/30/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Introduction



Origins and Types of Alternative Organizations



Cooperatives in the late twentieth-century: the democratic impulse and the challenge of oligarchy



The organizations studied, the methods used



A Theory of Democratic organization



The collectivist organization: an alternative to bureaucratic models



Internal conditions that facilitate collectivist-democratic organizations



External conditions that facilitate collectivist-democratic organizations



The Significance of Democratic Organizations



Democracy and individual satisfaction



The future of cooperation



Overview and conclusions


Notes


References


Index.