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Industrial Relations, Manipulative or Democratic?
Author(s) -
Parker Hilda Weiss
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1958.tb00285.x
Subject(s) - incentive , productivity , democracy , industrial relations , collective bargaining , industrial democracy , work (physics) , process (computing) , public relations , business , political science , economics , labour economics , political economy , economic growth , management , market economy , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , politics , computer science , operating system
Summary: Three historical periods of motivating workers toward increasing productivity still “coexist” today: negative incentives, external rewards, forms of workers' participation in industry. Varying modes of joint consultation at top levels existing in many countries are contrasted with American industrial research emphasizing workers' participation on the workshop level. The problems of “common goals” and “manipulation” in industry are considered as contributing factors to the gap between those two levels. To fill it, industrial sociologists should follow Mayo and others in the use of ‘clinical’ research to find new institutional forms for a democratic work process based on collective bargaining.