participatory management

Collins has authored or edited many articles and essays on the topics of business ethics, social responsibility, participatory management, and service learning.

"They'll go from a dictatorial management to participatory management," said Andrew J. Barile, an insurance consultant.

But American office workers are skeptical about management's performance on these dimensions, the poll shows; only a minority say they work under such participatory, open, or forthright management now.

Recognition that many workers want participatory management rose by 19 percentage points among executives since 1986, up from 25 percent to 44 percent.

The operational philosophy is grounded in the belief that joint problem solving and participatory management has the best chance of achieving program goals.

But the Japanese, a very male-oriented culture, seem to have perfected the art of participatory management.

In the 1990s, participatory management was revived in a different form through advocacy of organizational learning practices, particularly by clients and students of Peter Senge.

"Toyota's degree of participatory management may have been working all right for a while, but workers are wondering: are we better off with a union than without one?"

Suddenly, participatory management was in.

He described participatory management as a leadership style that consults a wide array of views and data and then makes a decision.