Quality,Participation,and Competitiveness

See, for example, Bailey Thomas , “Discretionary Effort and the Organization of Work: Employee Participation and Work Reform Since Hawthorne,” paper prepared for the Sloan Foundation, August 1992.

For descriptions of the new quality paradigm, see Ishikawa Kaoru , What is Quality Control (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1985); Juran Joseph , Juran on Leadership for Quality (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1989): And Mizuno Shigeru , Company-Wide Total Quality Control (Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, 1988).

For an overview of the various characteristics, see Dachler Peter Wilpert Bernhard , “Conceptual Dimensions and Boundaries of Participation in Organizations: A Critical Evaluation,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 23 (1978): 1–39.

Lawler Edward III Ledford Gerald Jr. Mohrman Susan , Employee Involvement in America (Houston, TX: American Productivity and Quality Center, 1989).

Levine David Tyson Laura , “Participation, Productivity, and the Firm's Environment,” in Paying for Productivity (Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1990), pp. 203–204.

Bailey , op. cit., p. 51.

Levine David , “Public Policy Implications of Imperfections in the Market for Worker Participation,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 13 (1992): 183–206.

Locke Edwin Schweiger David , “Participation in Decision-making: One More Look.” in Staw Barry , ed., Research in Organizational Behavior, 1 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1979), pp. 265–339.

Cole Robert E. , Work, Mobility & Participation (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1979), pp. 101–113.

Aoki Masahiko , Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Stinesen John , “T50 Seminarium med ABB: Kompetensutveckling Nyckelord For Ny Industriell Revolution,” [T50 Seminar witii ABB: Competence Development, a Key term for the New Industrial Revolution] Nya Verkstads Forum, 1 (February 1992): 11–12.

Klein Janice “The Human Costs of Manufacturing Reform,” Harvard Business Review, 67 (1984): 60–66.

Ibid.; Lawler , op. cit.

Levine David Kruse Douglas , “Employee Involvement Efforts: Incidence, Correlates and Effects,” unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.