Participation in co-operative firms: theory, measures and impacts
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Issue Date
2009
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Novkovic, Sonja
Stocki, Ryszard
Hough, Peter
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The paper contributes to the discourse on employee participation, and its impact on organizations. In particular, we look at co-operative1 firms as special cases of participatory organizations, and describe the total participation approach (Prokopowicz et al. 2008) as a natural fit for an underlying concept in measuring co-operatives’ organizational effectiveness. We then describe a tool based on the total participation theory to measure the degree of participation and its impact in organizations, and compare it
to the refined version, anchored in the co-operative principles and values.