Participative Management: Quality vs. Quantity

See Miles Raymond E. , “Human Relations or Human Resources?” Harvard Business Review (July-August 1965), p. 149.

See McGregor Douglas , The Human Side of Enterprise (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1960); and The Professional Manager (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1967).

See Likert Rensis , New Patterns of Management (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1961); and The Human Organization (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1967).

See Miles Raymond E. , “The Affluent Organization,” Harvard Business Review (May–June 1966), p. 106; and Miles Raymond E. Porter Lyman W. Craft James A. , “Leadership Attitudes Among Public Health Officials,” American Journal of Public Health (December 1966), p. 1990.

Other findings from this research are reported in Blankenship L. V. Miles Raymond E. , “Organization Structure and Management Decision Behavior,” Administrative Science Quarterly (June 1968), p. 106; and in Roberts Karlene Blankenship Miles , “Organizational Leadership, Satisfaction, and Productivity: A Comparative Analysis,” Academy of Management Journal (December 1968), p. 401.

For more detailed analysis of these data see Ritchie J. B. Miles Raymond E. , “An Analysis of Quantity and Quality of Participation as Mediating Variables in the Participative Decision Making Process,” Personnel Psychology (in press).

McGregor Douglas , The Professional Manager (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1967), p. 79.