TY - JOUR
AU - Strauss, George
AB - BOOK REVIEWS 447 overview of how the previous essays conflict with plish. Indeed, the impact of their experience sig- or contradict one another and then shows how nificantly reduced the worker representatives' alien- they provide different ways of looking not at the belief in participation and increased their same thing but at different aspects of different ation. kinds of organizations. There is a final chapter Why was participation's success so limited? by Martin Albrow on science and values in None of the reasons will be especially surprising is studying organizations that tacked on. to students in this field. The technology per- of the useful little summaries mitted autonomous work groups to exercise Many essays are of some of the important areas in understanding little discretion. Interest in decision making was organizations. Unfortunately the editors do not fairly limited. Groups were unwilling to disci- Other departments found it dif- connect the materials, leaving them even more pline slackers. ficult to deal with an undifferentiated group abstracted from ongoing organizations than have been. The book could be useful rather than specific individuals. Supervisors they might as a way to focus discussions for students who showed little support. Neither autonomous were have 
TI - Book Review: Work Performance and Satisfaction: Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work: Workers' Participation in an American Corporation
JF - ILR Review
DO - 10.1177/001979398203500323
DA - 1982-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-work-performance-and-satisfaction-democracy-authority-and-8ZsT85rNqL
SP - 447
EP - 448
VL - 35
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -