This book exanines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employee involvement and brings together the best of each approach into a comprehensive model for implementing participative management at all levels of an organization. Based on his analysis of 25 years of research and practical experience, Lawler spells out the benefits and disadvantages of such common techniques as self-managing work teams, job enrichment, and gainsharing. And he provides numerous case examples of employee involvement programs at such companies as Procter and Gamble, Honeywell, General Motors, IBM and Ford.