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Contributors

Foreword

PART I: PERSPECTIVES AND THEORY

Introduction: Global Patterns of Participation

Raymond Markey

Participation and Industrial Democracy Revisited: A Theoretical Perspective

Michael Poole

Russell Lansbury

Nick Wailes

PART II: DIRECT PARTICIPATION

Why Implement Group Work? Observations and Speculations after a European Survey

Jos Benders

Fred Huijgen

Ulrich Pekruhl

Employee Involvement and Organisational Change: The Diffusion of High Involvement Management in Australian Workplaces

Paul J. Gollan

Edward M. Davis

New Ways of Working for Women: The Gender Dimensions of Direct Participation

Juliet Webster

PART III: TRADE UNIONS

American Experience with Union-Nominated Boards of Directors

George Strauss

National Strategies and Local Diversities: Adding Value through Broad Participation---Experiences from the Norwegian Enterprise Development 2000 Program

Johan Elvemo

Ida Munkeby

Pal Lynne Hansen

Employee Participation and Bipartite and Tripartite Cooperation in Greece: Problems and Prospects

Chris Jecchinis

Theodoros Koutroukis

How Managers Perceive Cooperation and Codetermination with Unions: Some Australian and US Comparisons

Raymond Markey

Simon Pomfret

Efficiency vs Democracy in the Workplace? A Postscript on Self Management at Malta Drydocks

Edward L. Zammit

PART IV: WORKS COUNCILS AND CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEES

Corporate Governance and Workers' Participation in the Netherlands

Rienk Goodijk

Is There a Future for Employee Representation? Understanding the Effects of Changes in Organisation and Work on Works Councils

Jan Kees Looise

Michiel Drucker

Jan de Leede

Between European and National Institutions: European Works Councils in Dutch-owned MNCs as a New Form of Workers' Representation

Ulke Veersma

Workers' Participation in Ghana: A Case Study of a State-owned Enterprise in Transition to Privatisation

El-Khider Ali Musa

PART V: INTERACTION BETWEEN DIFFERENT FORMS OF PARTICIPATION

Employee Involvement and Participation in the Organisational Change Decision: Illawarra and Australian Patterns

Ann Hodgkinson

Works Councils and HRM in Germany: Analytical Arguments and Empirical Evidence

Walther Muller-Jentsch

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Employee Participation and Trade Union Action

Jacques Monat

Top Executives' Attitude and Preferences Toward Employee Voice and Participation in Singapore

David Tai Wai Wan

Peck Shang Phee

Conclusions: Models of Diversity and Interaction