Participative Bureaucracy and Productivity in the Machined Products Sector

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  • MKMaryellen R. Kelley
    Maryellen R. Kelley
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Abstract
In a participative bureaucracy, group‐based employee participation mechanisms provide opportunities to reexamine old routines and to take advantage of informal shortcuts that employees have worked out on their own. Instead of proving to be dinosaurs, older and larger bureaucratically structured organizations are demonstrating a capability for adaptation and change and achieving new productivity advantages through such participative structures. For small firms, a participative bureaucracy is complementary to the productive use of information technology in the machining process.