Is Scanlon and Participative Management dead?
With new economic realities and globalization, do you think that participative management plans such as Scanlon are becoming an expensive thing of the past? I see more and more companies that are jettisoning “unnecessary” things to remain profitable, and I’m wondering if things like organizational development, employee participation, and profit sharing are going to become too expensive to support. Employees may have to work to develop their own professional development cultures outside of their organizations through social networking sites and other means. I’m interested to hear what others’ read is on this.
