ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the effective, meaningful and democratic worker participation. In view of the distribution of the studies over different parts of Africa, with different labour relations patterns, and accumulating a wide variety of formal and informal workplace democracy, the comparative data may be inferred to constitute a sufficient basis for a generalised comparative appreciation of structures and functioning of workplace democracy. The design of participation institutions: checklist for the improvement of the structure of workplace democracy. A major difficulty encountered in the functioning of participation is the structure of participation. Measures must be taken to ensure that workplace participation structures are not used to undermine trade unions. Collective bargaining is a procedure by which trade unions negotiate terms of employment contracts of workers and a number of working conditions. The absence of legal rights and duties with respect to structure and functioning of worker participation bodies obviously exposes these bodies to the balance of power between the parties.
