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Participation in management: A comparative perspective
Participación en la gestión: una perspectiva comparada;
Participação na gerência: uma perspectiva comparada
Autor
Motta, Paulo Roberto
Institución
Resumen
After establishing the concepts of direct and indirect participation, the Author examines how they occur in the three types of basic enterprise decisions: decisions on integration, on distribution and on adaptation. When examining the four kinds of indirect participation - enterprise or establishment committees; collective bargaining; co-management and self-management - the Author reaches the conclusion that comparative analysis discloses as the principal characteristic of the four mentioned forms the high degree of diversity expressed by the socio-economic development stage of the country, by political conditions and by the rights of workers, established by social and labor legislation, as much as by the history and by the juridical structure of workers' organizations and their degree of autonomy, their dependence of and relationship with other political institutions. The comparative analysis comprehends Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, United States of America, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Sweden. The experience of the considered examples shows that, as concerns the distribution of work results - primary function of indirect participation - the most effective measures are collective bargaining and self-management. O objetivo deste trabalho é examinar comparativamente as formas de participação indireta na gerência. Conforme analisamos em trabalho anterior a participação indireta compreende o processo no qual os membros de uma organização constituem representantes para agir em seu nome e influenciar ou exercer funções normalmente desempenhadas pela direção superior. Distingue-se da participação direta porque, nesta, o indivíduo desempenha um papel ativo na tomada de decisão exercendo, concomitantemente, funções antes exclusivas de níveis hierárquicos superiores.