Experimenting with Industrial Democracy: The Impact on Financial Control in the UK Post OfficeCentre for Research in Industrial Democracy and Participation, University of Glasgow, 1983 - Management - 28 pages Research paper on an Experiment in workers participation in financial management involving parity representation of postal workers on management boards in the UK postal service, 1978 to 1979 - reviews employees attitudes and management attitudes; outlines institutional framework; identifies centralization of management control over budgeting, lack of training and management resistance as reasons for failure. References. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE BUDGET PROCESS AND THE FINANCIAL | 8 |
BUDGETFIXING AND PARTICIPATION | 14 |
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agreed allocate APC meetings area level area's bids Batstone Board and APC budget process budget-fixing process Business HQ cial constraints consultative machinery COPOU objectives cracy current and historic customers David Taylor De-sharing decision-making discretion discuss the OPB effective Employee Participation equal numbers example EXPERIMENTING WITH INDUSTRIAL financial control system Head Postmaster higher organisational levels Imperial College implementation industrial demo industrial democracy bodies industrial democracy experiment Industrial Relations influence intermediate levels issues Joint Consultative management and unions management's managerial activity Mandy Snell ment negotiations Operational Plan organisational unit paper participation at intermediate particularly Plan and Budget Post Office Corporation Postal Business quality of service questionnaires regional and area Regional Boards regional budget regional business plan Regional Chairman Regional Chairmen/Directors regional level Reserved Powers responsibility senior managers staff targets Telecomms Business Telecomms regional Telecommunications tion Tom Schuller trade unions union participation union representatives UNMs were given