Manufacturing empowerment? ‘Employee involvement’ in the labour process after Fordism

Implementing Employee Empowerment

otal quality management (TQM) is built on the four cornerstones of customer focus, continuous process improvement, management leadership, and employee empowerment. Although empowerment is often the most difficult of the four concepts to implement effectively, organizations that have been successful in empowering their employees invariably see bottomline improvements. Empowerment has been define...

Dispersed Fordism and a New Organisation of Labour

Dispersed Fordism and a New Organisation of Labour

A Causal Model of the Empowerment Process: Exploring the Links between Empowerment Practices, Employee Cognitions, and Behavioral Outcomes

Employee involvement in Ukrainian companies

This paper examines the hypothesis that the introduction of Western quality standards has brought some development of employee involvement in Ukrainian manufacturing and service companies and analyses the consequences for managements’ use of the institutions of employee representation. The subject is pursued through eight case studies, four in a test and four in a control group. Quality develop...