Participative Manager

Seppala A., Participative Management models and the role of groups and supervision, in Hale et al. (Eds.), Safety Management the challenge of change, Pergamon, Oxford. 

Employee Participation, Management Safety Culture, and Corporate Downsizing... 

The concepts of employee empowerment and the many forms of participative management that have been tried over the years are reflections of McGregor s Theory Y. 

Taken as a whole, participative management approaches can be extremely beneficial in organizational decision-making and driver retention. 

Angermeier, I., Dunford, B., Boss, A. D., Boss, R. W., The Impact of Participative Management Perceptions on Customer Service, Medical Errors, Burnout, and Turnover Intentions, Journal of Healthcare Matmgement, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2009, pp. 127-141. 

Daft, R.L. Theory Z Opening the corporate door for participative management. Academy of Management Executive 18(4) 117-122, 2004. 

Horizontally at the shop-floor level, where the interaction between people and four other elements of the work system occurs. The sixth element, management, is projected from above, even though participative management may be used. 

Douglas McGregor, who specialized in human behavior in organizations, is famous for his formulation of Theory X (authoritarian management) versus Theory Y (participative management [2]). 

Participative. Management provides economic rewards and is concerned to get employees involved in groups capable of making decisions it sets challenging goals and works closely with employees to encourage high performance. Communication flows easily in both... 

As organizations have changed from the traditional functional structure to the product or matrix structure, the role of the first-line supervisor is changing too. Since this position has the most impact on attempts to move toward participative management and empowerment of the workers, an understanding of the supervisor s role is necessary. 

Another way to classify managers is to consider their attitudes toward their subordinates. The two extremes are the authoritarian manager and the participative manager. Authoritarian managers are characterized by their secretiveness they also have their fingers in everything that happens, they always... 

Reports at the executive level fully integrated in strategic planning and operations cross-functional integration, minimal management layers, practice participative management... 

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