Effectiveness of Employee Involvement

员工参与的有效性

• 批准号: 9515010
• 负责人: Richard Freeman
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-04-01 至 1997-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9515010&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Effectiveness; Employee; Involvement

One of the newest developments in American business is the use of employee involvement (EI) programs-- by which we mean a diverse set of personnel and management practices such as self-directed work teams, total quality management, or quality circles, and the like that give workers more authority at workplaces. Existing studies of EI have not addressed whether these practices enhance organizational performance save in particular sectors, whether any performance gain is do to organizational change or human capital enhancement, or the benefits that flow to workers from EI. They have raised questions as to whether unions increase the effectiveness of EI programs, why some establishments have EI and others do not, and most critically, about the set of new practices that firms must adopt for EI programs to succeed, and what those practices might be. To address these questions a series of 20 case investigations of establishments, including some paired comparisons of establishments with EI programs and those without, and of establishments where these programs have failed will be undertaken. In addition, a new data on employee involvement programs in several hundred establishments will be developed; examine the relationship between EI programs and productivity using longitudinal data from the LRD Survey of Manufacturers files of the Census. Finally, employee outcomes using the Workplace Representation and Participation Survey will examined. The study will provide valuable information to business, labor, and government on the importance of employee participation in the creation and maintenance of high performance workplaces.

美国企业的最新发展之一是员工参与（EI）计划的使用-我们指的是一套多样化的人事和管理实践，如自我指导的工作团队，全面质量管理或质量圈，等等，这些都赋予工人在工作场所更多的权力。 现有的EI研究还没有解决这些做法是否提高组织绩效保存在特定部门，是否有任何性能增益是做组织变革或人力资本增强，或从EI流到工人的好处。他们提出了一些问题，如工会是否提高了EI计划的有效性，为什么一些企业有EI，而另一些企业没有，最关键的是，企业必须采取一套新的做法，以使EI计划取得成功，以及这些做法可能是什么。 为了解决这些问题，一系列的20个案例调查机构，包括一些配对比较机构与EI方案和那些没有，这些方案失败的机构将进行。 此外，将开发数百家企业的员工参与计划的新数据;使用人口普查的LRD制造商调查文件中的纵向数据，检查EI计划和生产力之间的关系。 最后，将审查使用工作场所代表性和参与调查的员工成果。 这项研究将为企业、劳工和政府提供有价值的信息，说明员工参与创建和维护高绩效工作场所的重要性。