The business of employee empowerment : democracy and ideology in the workplace /

Potterfield calls for actions that cut through the ideological barriers to empowerment at the corporate level and also for ways to alter the prevailing power structure, to enhance the relative strength of employees in various types of organizations. His book provides a synthesis of major empowerment...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Potterfield, Thomas A., 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 1999.
Subjects:
Employee empowerment.
Industrial management > Employee participation.
Personnel > Habilitation.
Gestion d'entreprise > Participation du personnel.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Workplace Culture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Employee empowerment
Industrial management > Employee participation
Mitarbeiter
Mitbestimmung
Partizipation
Unternehmen
Medezeggenschap.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Social, Political, and Economic Antecedents of Empowerment
  • 2. The Theories and Practices of Empowerment
  • 3. Ideas in Action: Empowerment at a Fortune 100 Corporation
  • 4. Integrating Theory and Practice: Reflections on the Farbrook Technologies Interviews
  • 5. The Emancipatory Potential of Empowerment
  • 6. Ideological Influences within the Theories and Practices of Empowerment
  • 7. Overcoming Ideological Influences and Advancing the Cause of Freedom.

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