PARTICIPATIVE BUREAUCRACY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE MACHINED PRODUCTS SECTOR

In a participative bureaucracy, group-based employee participation mec hanisms provide opportunities to reexamine old routines and to take ad vantage of informal shortcuts that employees have worked out on their own. Instead of proving to be dinosaurs, older and larger bureaucratic ally structured organizations are demonstrating a capability for adapt ation and change and achieving new productivity advantages through suc h participative structures. For small firms, a participative bureaucra cy is complementary to the productive use of information technology in the machining process.