Simplifying the treatment of the human aspect of management part three

Abstract

We have, at this stage, a picture of a new form of management emerging which places prime emphasis on its human aspect. We have, earlier in the series, identified the source of the change as a search for some solution to the problem of how to motivate employees in the new social and political environment when the time‐honoured sanctions of brute force and coercion have ceased to apply. We have reviewed that range of ideas which came out of the application of the behavioural sciences to the work situation and how they came to be assembled under the umbrella title of participative management. We can appreciate the soundness and the humaneness of the participative management concepts and we have plenty of evidence to convince us that the ideas work out well in practice. So why not just sit back and let these new ideas take over and solve our problems?

Citation

WELLENS, J. (1977), "Simplifying the treatment of the human aspect of management part three", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 9 No. 11, pp. 446-451. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003637