Company Organisation and Worker Participation Survey, 1976

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The aims of this survey were:<br>
to explore role and functions of the board of directors in modern private sector companies;<br>
to compare impressions of current and other possible approaches to decision making held by individuals at key levels within sampled companies;<br>
to discover the incidence and importance of the main forms of industrial democracy in current environment;<br>
to seek the views held at key levels on the prospects for worker participation at board level;<br>
to investigate whether the answers given by individuals at key levels in the same company showed a propensity to be the same or different.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Variables<br>
Data was collected from directors about boardroom practice and current forms of worker participation in terms of negotiations, joint consultation, disclosure policy. Attitudes towards &lt;i&gt;worker directors&lt;/i&gt; were probed.