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    This document discusses various ways to motivate employees through participation, including quality of work life programs, quality circles, employee share ownership, and flexible work schedules. It also covers self-managed work teams where employees work interdependently to define their own goals with minimal external controls. The key approaches are quality of work life initiatives to satisfy employees' economic, social and psychological needs, quality circles for problem solving, stock ownership plans to develop ownership and participation, and flexible schedules to accommodate personal needs.

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    Motivation Through Employee Participation

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    This document discusses various ways to motivate employees through participation, including quality of work life programs, quality circles, employee share ownership, and flexible work schedules. It also covers self-managed work teams where employees work interdependently to define their own goals with minimal external controls. The key approaches are quality of work life initiatives to satisfy employees' economic, social and psychological needs, quality circles for problem solving, stock ownership plans to develop ownership and participation, and flexible schedules to accommodate personal needs.

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    This document discusses various ways to motivate employees through participation, including quality of work life programs, quality circles, employee share ownership, and flexible work schedules. It also covers self-managed work teams where employees work interdependently to define their own goals with minimal external controls. The key approaches are quality of work life initiatives to satisfy employees' economic, social and psychological needs, quality circles for problem solving, stock ownership plans to develop ownership and participation, and flexible schedules to accommodate personal needs.

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    Motivation Through Employee Participation

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    Yangchen Mend
    This document discusses various ways to motivate employees through participation, including quality of work life programs, quality circles, employee share ownership, and flexible work schedules. It also covers self-managed work teams where employees work interdependently to define their own goals with minimal external controls. The key approaches are quality of work life initiatives to satisfy employees' economic, social and psychological needs, quality circles for problem solving, stock ownership plans to develop ownership and participation, and flexible schedules to accommodate personal needs.

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    Motivation through Employee Participation

    Table of Contents
    1. QWL.........................................................................................2
    a. QC.........................................................................................3
    b. Employee share ownership..................................................4
    c. Flexible Work Schedule........................................................5
    2. Self-managed work teams......................................................6

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    1. QWL
    QWL stands for Quality of Work Life. It indicates the quality of
    relationship between employees and the total work environment.
    It believes that people perform better when they are allowed to
    participate in managing their work and make decisions. This
    approach motivates people by satisfying not only their economic
    needs but also their social and psychological ones. To satisfy the
    new generation workforce, organizations need to concentrate on
    job designs and organization of work. Further, today’s workforce is
    realizing the importance of relationships and is trying to strike a
    balance between career and personal lives. There are some
    mechanisms through which elements of QWL can be achieved.
    They are:
    a QC
    b Employee share ownership
    c Flexible work schedule

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    a. QC
    QC stands for Quality Circle. The concept of QC is essentially
    Japanese. A quality circle or quality control circle is a group of
    workers who do the same or similar work, who meet regularly to
    identify, analyze and solve work-related problems. It consists of
    minimum three and maximum twelve members in number.

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    b. Employee share ownership


    Employee stock ownership, or employee share ownership, is where a
    company's employees own shares in that company. Employees
    typically acquire shares through a share or share option plan. Such
    plans may be selective or all-employee plans. Selective plans are
    typically only made available to senior executives. This scheme has
    major two advantages:

    i. The ownership feeling is developed among the employees


    and increases their commitment to the organization.
    ii. The employees would have an opportunity to participate in
    decision making and share their ideas, opinion and creativity
    with the management of their organization.

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    c. Flexible Work Schedule


    These are also called flextime.

    Flexible schedules allow employees to vary their arrival and


    departure times from work, or choose the days that they work. For
    example, an employee might be allowed to come in any time
    between 9 am and 11 am, and leave any time between 5 am and 7
    pm.

    The advantage of this system is that the employee can tailor their
    workday to fit their personal needs. It gives them more personal
    control over the hours they work each day. A number of studies have
    shown that flexible work hours do often results in higher levels of
    motivation

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    2. Self-managed work teams


    Self-management teams work toward goals that are defined by a
    staff person outside the team. A self-directed team defines its own
    goals. While the self-management team is independent, the team
    members are interdependent. The team is self-regulating, operating
    with few external controls. Team members determine schedules,
    procedures and the need to make adjustments. Self-management
    teams are used in different work environments, including
    manufacturing, service industries, professional services and virtual
    environments. Effective self-management team models are
    appropriate for the type of work performed, the workplace
    environment and the structure of the business.

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