Participative Management or Self-Management; Interrogating Modern Management Thought with Economic Crisis Environment

Yıl 2013, Cilt: 15 Sayı: 4, 72 - 84, 01.12.2013

Ass. Prof. Dr. Çağatay Edgücan Şahin

Öz

Nowadays, there is a global economic crisis and there isn’t any consistent policy for recovering it, yet. Along with crisis, neoliberal economic policies widely criticized much more than before. Neoliberal policies are package of policies which across the board. Work place management techniques and strategies are embedded policies of neoliberalism. We can consider human resources and participative management strategies in it. After the deepening crisis, the discourses of “mutual interests of labor and management” and “in the same ship and common fate” have decreased their popularity rapidly. Accordingly, criticizing of neoliberal policies accompany criticizing popular mainstream workplace management practicies and their stream of thought. In this paper, we will discuss Latin American countries late years self management experiences at workplace level, in the context of being an alternative for popular mainstream management techniques like human resources and participative management. In this discussion, contemporary practicies will be comparing in the context of labor process. Hiring and firing, making better of working conditions, also laborers perceptions on their jobs and labor motivation/alienation will be main points of this comparison.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Labor process, self management, human resources, participative management, neoliberalism

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