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Employees’ Conceptions of How Management Can Operationalize Employee Involvement

Author : Stavros Georgiades

Published in: Handbook of Social Media Management

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

The global recession and its subsequent negative consequences have led managers of media organizations consider changes to the way they manage their organizations, aiming for greater efficiency and effectiveness. One of the changes considered was the achievement of employee involvement towards organizational decisions and operations.
Despite long-standing recognition on the importance of gaining employee involvement for implementing change successfully, we know almost nothing about how employees think about the way management can work to gain employee involvement. The purpose of this research is to eliminate this lacuna.
From a theoretical perspective, there has been a great deal of literature on the importance of gaining employee involvement in order to implement change. Even though these theoretical views are helpful, outstanding issues remain. More specifically, the existing theoretical views have not dealt adequately with how the employees think about the way management can work to achieve employee involvement. Also, there is little empirically grounded theoretical account of how employees think about how management can operationalize employee involvement.
In order to address this gap this study explores how employees think about the way management can operationalize employee involvement. As a result this research contributes towards a richer theory on the process behind the implementation of employee involvement, highlighting the importance of the recruitment process and the achievement of employee creation, innovation and confidence that their involvement is true and valid.

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Metadata
Title
Employees’ Conceptions of How Management Can Operationalize Employee Involvement
Author
Stavros Georgiades
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Handbook of Social Media Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-28896-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-28897-5

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28897-5_6