Employee Involvement

10. Employee Involvement and Issues in HRM

Professor Debi S. Saini (debisaini@mdi.ac.in) Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

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HRM and Employee Involvement

Objectives of this session are to discuss the following:

•EI and EP: Historical development & meaning and Aims • Types of EI: Downward & Upward • EI and employee engagement • Company newsletter as a form of downward EI • Team Briefing: Nature– merits–determinants of Success • Team working/suggestion scheme/attitude surveys & EI • QCs: Nature–– merits––prerequisites; TQM: Nature––features––themes • Working of EI at global level:

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What is Noticeable in People Mgt. Today?

• Shift from Taylorism: i.e. indl. revolution model of HR mgt.

• Taylorism reflects: Control—Discipline —Sanctions —Direction

• As in music, even in business there is a Shift to involvement/teams

• EI intertwines trust and responsibility

• The idea: Help and take others along with you

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Employee Participation and Involvement: Historical

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Salamon’s Distinctions

• Industrial Democracy: Worker control

• Employee Participation: Influences decision making

• EI: Engagement, understanding, commitment & contribution

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EI and EP: Recent Thinking contd…

• Globalization

--Led to saliency of Japanization in HRM

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India: Article 43-A inducted in Constitution

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Global level; Shift from CB to HRM: EI a key HRM theme

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HRM/New IR aim to Build WM’s commitment

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Linkage of EI with Japanese Mgt. Practices

• Japan exemplary in employee participatory practices • Impact of Confucius:

A leadership theorist, stressed ––Cooperation and harmony ––Social hierarchy through benevolent leader ––Leader to act in interest of followers: Young to respect sr.

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HRM philosophy & Employee Involvement

• HRM/excellence movement in 1980s: EI

––Tom Peters: “People are most valuable asset”

• HRM: Mgrl. aversion to EP in general—But EI helps

• EI reflects: managerial strategies for...