This document discusses workers' participation in management. It defines participation as the mental and emotional investment of an individual in a group to contribute to group goals and share responsibility. Participation can produce benefits like higher productivity, employee satisfaction, improved quality, teamwork, creativity, and reduced turnover and absenteeism. Empirical research has shown genuine participation benefits organizations by tapping into human resources and leading to higher productivity. However, factors like lack of management initiative, ideological differences, political unionism, and narrow participation forums can be responsible for the failure of participative schemes in India.

2. Vipin kr. Dwivedi
Pgdm , Sims Ghaziabad

3. The concept of participation means sharing of decision power
of rank and fill of an industrial organization.
The process of participation also help in understanding the
dynamics of an enterprise's.
The structure, content and form of WPM depends on political
ideology and system adopted by a particular society.
Meaning of workers participation in management
Purpose of Workers' Participation
It utilized meaningfully, workers' participation can serve a
number of purposes, all geared to archive organizational
effectiveness and the satisfaction of the employees

4. Definition :
ACCORDING TO, ‘KEITH DAVIS’:
‘MENTALAND EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT OF A PERSON IN A
GROUP SITUATION WHICH ENCOURAGES HIM TO CONTRIBUTE
TO GROUP GOALS AND SHARE RESPONSIBILITY IN THEM’.
THE IMPORTANT ELEMENT ARE:
A. Not a physical activity.
B. Encourage people to share responsibility.
C. Person must contribute his initiative, knowledge, creativity for
the attainment of objective of the organization.

5. KEITH DAVIS(1967): claims that participation has helped to
produce one or more of the following.
BENEFITS:
Higher productivity
Employees satisfaction
Improved quality of work
Team work
Creativity
Responsible behavior
Reduce turnover
Reduce absenteeism
Empirical research has proved that the practice of GENUINE
PARTICIPATION BENEFITS THE ORGATION IN TERMS
TO TAPPING that latent human resources, And leading to
higher productivity and increased production.
Benefit of workers participation in manageme

6. Lack of positive attitude of the management
Lack of initiative of trade union
Ideological differences
Worker’s attitude
Political unionism
Narrow scope of participation forums
Multiplicity of participative forum
Factor responsible for failure of participative
schemes in India.