Workplace Democracy

Background

In today's world, work place democracy has got its popularity. The whole world is now running for democracy. Same is the case with the workplace where employees wants to have democracy in their work. The author of this article states that the employees are not the ones who chose the management and therefore they have to obey what the management has to say. Other than this the employees cannot do anything as they don't have any say. According to the author, workplace democracy is not possible. Those employees who have shown their voice in front of the management and has left the organization, does not mean that they have went for another organization that appreciates democracy, but rather they become self employed. Democracy is a form of collective decision making that presupposes some form of equality among the participants. The term gets used empirically and normatively, often simultaneously. It often used to describe or distinguish political regime from another. An autonomous system, for example, is one in which there are procedures and institutions for capturing the views of citizens and translating them into binding decisions. At the same time, however, these empirical descriptions often contain within them normative claims about the way institutions ought to be structured or behave. Thus, it can be said that one society (whether now or in the past) is more (or less) democratic than another. The ideal of equality is particularly important to the normative evaluation of democracy. A democratic political system, in this view, is one that manifests in its institutions and procedures a conception of its members as free and equal and thus owed equal respect (Schumpeter, pp. 123).

According to my opinion workplace Democracy can be justified in two habitual ways. First, we might consider democracy valuable in terms of the outcomes it tends to produce and thus offer instrumental arguments for its value. Second, we might think of democracy as intrinsically valuable. Political theorists almost always believe that political institutions have to be evaluated in some way in relation to the outcomes they produce. However, as we'll see, some think democracy needs to be defended in terms independent of the evaluation of its consequences. I do not agree to the author Mayer, who says that it is not morally right for workplace democracy. According to my opinion, there should be democracy in workplace and organizations. The employees should be having the right to speak to the management of their issues and concerns.

Definition of Workplace Democracy

Workplace democracy is the use of democracy in all its forms (including voting systems, discussions, democratic structuring, due process, adversarial process, systems of appeal, and so on) to place of work. Workplace democracy is the fruit of the empowerment tree. When the people in an organization get empowered, and the support systems maintain the state of empowerment, then workplace democracy gradually emerges. Unlike democracy in local government, workplace democracy is not a system of majority rule. Instead, it is a system of consensus decision making (Dumaine, ...