Assessing the democratic quality of participative management. Ethnography of a Decathlon Store in Belgium
(2019) EthnoWorkshop — Location: ESADE Business school, Barcelona, Espagne. (21.March.2019)
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- Participation and self-management practices have regained attention among practitioners and the scientific community in the past years (Borzeix, Charles, & Zimmermann, 2015; Landemore & Ferreras, 2016; Lee & Edmondson, 2017; Wilkinson, Gollan, Lewin, & Marchington, 2009). Debates exist in this literature whether democratizing management would be a sufficient step toward workplace democracy without tackling the issue of the firm’s government or ownership. While being able to influence the means, participative management practices would always keep workers away from decisions about work and the firm’s finalities (Ferreras, 2012; Landemore & Ferreras, 2016). Though I most agree with the argument, I am not entirely convinced that there is no micro-emancipation potential (Huault, Perret, & Spicer, 2012) in these kinds of practices. The key question this research wants to answer is : is participative management a sufficient gateway to workplace democracy ? Subsequently, I also question the reverse : is participative management a ploy for workers ?
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Jégou, O. (2019). Assessing the democratic quality of participative management. Ethnography of a Decathlon Store in Belgium. EthnoWorkshop, ESADE Business school, Barcelona, Espagne. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/239922