The Democratic Organisation: Democracy and the Future of Work
In: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Introduction -- Democratic Organisations Are Novel -- Democratic Organisations Are Necessary -- Democratic Organisations Are Possible -- Overview of the Book -- 1. Prevailing Organisations and Alternatives -- What's Wrong with Our Organisations? -- Viable Alternatives: Democratic Organisations -- Interest-Oriented Democratic Organisations -- Ownership-Oriented Democratic Organisations -- Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) Organisations -- Key Criteria of Democratic Organisations -- PART I: The Model of the Democratic Organisation -- 2. Libertarian Constitution -- Free Will and Free Individuals -- Self-Ownership and Inalienable Rights -- Private Ownership and Property Rights -- The Partnership Agreement and the Democratic Organisation -- 3. Democratic Governance -- Governance: Democratic Governance -- Democratic Institutions of Governance -- Legitimate Authoritative Sources -- Democratic Governing -- 'Good Governance' -- Democratic Governance of the Democratic Organisation -- 4. Democratic Management -- Hierarchy and/or Heterarchy: Democratic Management -- Self-Management -- Representative Management -- Participative Management -- The Elements of Democratic Management -- 5. Equalising Empowerment -- From Equal Rights to Equal Power and the Idea of Equalising Empowerment -- Meaning(s) and a Three-Dimensional Concept of Empowerment and Disempowerment -- The Formal, Psychological, and Social Disempowerment of the Many -- Empowering the Disempowered Many -- The Formal, Psychological, and Social Empowerment of the Few -- Disempowering the Empowered Few -- How Equalising Empowerment Works -- 6. Considerate Conduct of Business -- Conduct of Business: Considerate Conduct of Business -- People: Social Orientation and Social Behaviour.