Working Paper
The Contextual Determinants Of Increased Adoption Of Participative Practices In Organizations
Drawing on multiple frameworks, this study tested longitudinally on a matched set of 130 companies the contextual determinants of increased adoption of participative practices. It also investigated whether organizational and environmental characteristics mediate the adoption patterns for two different types of participative practices that differed in their level of complexity. Environmental decline, firm downsizing, profitability, industry type and cumulative levels of prior adoption were positively related to increase in overall participative practices. Firm profitability, industry type, and initial level of adoption were positively related to increased utilization of employee participation groups, while increase in level of professionalization, industry type, initial level of adoption, and downsizing were positively related to increased utilization of self-managing teams, and higher unionization was negatively related.
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