Describes each major participative management approach works, its particular strengths, costs, and savings, and offers guidelines for implementation.

Textbook on participative management - discusses various patterns and styles of managerial leadership behaviour, theoretics, participative management techniques, job satisfaction and increased labour productivity, motivation, research and development, etc. References and statistical tables.

In today's dynamic and competitive environment the call is to maintain high levels of effectiveness, productivity, innovativeness, and worker motivation. Participative management is emerged as a tool to job satisfaction and work group. Participatory decision making is to empower the employees to participate in management decision making. Participation in decision making requires good communication; the more channels you can open up, the more you can have staff participate in managing the organization. This conceptual paper emphasizes awareness and practical implication of participatory management to deal with knowledge based problems. It is to find out to what extent workers participation positively affects employee job satisfaction, reduces absenteeism and turnover.

In today's highly competitive business environment, those with effective leadership skills operate the most successful organizations. With its emphasis on engaging the workforce, increasing performance, providing effective customer service, and promoting efficient work processes, participative management should be an integral part of today's organizations. Author Ray Helmcamp points out the merits of this management style as he discusses the following: Analysis of the paradigm shift from a traditional to a more humanistic style of management Teamwork and the use of teams as an integral part of participative management Motivation and the hierarchy of needs related to the work environment The right leadership style for participative management The gestalt of participative management in terms of polarity and perception Organizational pathology as it relates to the stress of the individual employee and dysfunctional systems within the organization The importance of humanistic psychology to the organization Participative management and its impact on organizational effectiveness How Participative Management impacts the organizational society In The Psychology of Participative Management, Helmcamp analyzes this democratic style of management from a behavioral, humanistic, and social perspective. He provides a strong argument for the use of participative management as a foundation for achieving the highest degree of organizational effectiveness.