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An Experiment on Participation in a Latin American Factory
- Source :
- Human Relations. 27:627-637
- Publication Year :
- 1974
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1974.
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Abstract
- In a field experiment the extent of psychological participation was manipulated for three groups of women operators in the garment industry in Puerto Rico. It was found that a moderate level of participation through representatives led to greater increases in productivity than either a higher level of direct participation or a lower level of indirect participation, again through representatives. This result is compared with that of Coch and French who found that direct participation was more effective than participation through representation. No clear differences were found between the groups on other dependent variables or in the effect of conditioning variables. The main result, as well as trends in the data, suggests that the effects of participation are influenced by cross-cultural variations.
- Subjects :
- Latin Americans
Variables
Strategy and Management
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05 social sciences
Moderate level
General Social Sciences
Direct participation
050109 social psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Management of Technology and Innovation
0502 economics and business
Development economics
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Factory
Demographic economics
Psychology
Productivity
050203 business & management
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1741282X and 00187267
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Human Relations
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b40a31908a72afa83c5e886fa0710d5e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872677402700701