ABSTRACT
"Management by participation" is a form of organizing the work process which, in theory, allows workers to participate in decision-making by according them an overview of the productive process, teaching them skills and allocating them responsibilities which, in other forms of the labor process, are the prerogative of management. The most famous management system was developed in the early 20th century by Fredrick Taylor whose "Taylor system" of "scientific management" sought to rationalize production and justify the establishment of professional managers. All full-time consumer products incorporated interviewers were told in memos from management that they were "developmental," meaning that they participated in job enlargement, job enrichment and worker management committees. The source of both the process of legitimization of management's control, and the generation of contradictions to that control was the reorganization of the work process brought about by management by participation.
