Making Employee Involvement Work
Cooperative Goals and Controversy to Reduce Costs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9891372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dean Tjosvold (Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC V5A 1S6, Canada; Department of Management, Lingnan College, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201-214 |
| Publication date | 1998-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001872679805100205 |
| OpenAlex | W2144064586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 21 |
Organizations are involving employees to help reduce costs to succeed in the intensely competitive marketplace. However, many researchers have been skeptical of the value of participation. This study uses Deutsch's theory of cooperation and competition to examine the critical mediating variable of the interaction as employees discuss how to reduce costs. Results of structural equation analyses on data collected from interviews when employees participated in reducing costs indicate that cooperative goals contributed to constructive discussion among employees that resulted in productive work and stronger relationships, which in turn led employees to be committed to reducing costs. Competitive goals were negatively correlated with dynamics and outcomes. These results suggest that researchers and managers can agree that employee involvement has potential but employees need cooperative goals and skills to discuss issues open-mindedly and constructively to realize these benefits
Business · Competition (biology · Constructive · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Skepticism · Structural equation modeling · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Computer Science · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Marketing
Participation, Satisfaction, and Productivity
Self-Reports in Organizational Research
Experimental studies on figural after-effects in Japan
Effects of Controversy and Defensiveness on Cognitive Perspective-Taking
Cognitive and motivational effects of participation
A Theory of Co-operation and Competition
Perceived Control by Employees
The Resolution of Conflict
The critical incident technique
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2015 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |