15 research outputs found
Forms of participation – the development and application of a conceptual model of participation in work environment interventions
In the realm of work environment improvements, the Nordic countries have led the way in demonstrating
that employee participation is a key requisite for achieving improvements. Despite this there is a lack of
precision on what ‘participatory’ in a participatory work environment intervention means. In this study,
we present a conceptual model for participation in work environment interventions and apply it to
protocols and manuals from 8 participatory interventions to determine the form of participation used in
each intervention. We suggest that the conceptual model can be applied in the design and assessment of
participatory work environment interventions
Re-imagining management education in post-WWII Britain: Views from government and business
This paper explores the role of government and business in establishing two business schools in Britain in the 1960s. Partly in response to the Robbins Report of 1963, business leaders and politicians re-imagined management education and formed a new type of management education institution to operate alongside and ultimately compete a variety of other methods of management preparation. These two groups collaborated to create the London Graduate School of Business and Manchester Business School as national centers of excellence for management education. Using both archival and published sources, the paper’s contribution is to analyze perspectives expressed by businesspeople and political advocates involved with the business school project. It concludes that these advocates sought to create a body of educated, productive, yet socially-minded managers to lead Britain forward into the next phase of its economic development