10.2190/27R7-P69K-EN6U-3URG 27R7P69KEN6U3URG 1 The Elements of Industrial Democracy 7 18 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 27R7P69KEN6U3URG.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=27R7P69KEN6U3URG 1 Paul D. Staudohar California State University, Hayward This article examines the concept of industrial democracy as it applies to individual rights in the workplace. Although emphasis is placed on the development of rights, it is necessary to develop also the notion of job duties and obligations. Just as a citizen under a politically democratic system is expected to fulfill certain duties, so is an employee expected to perform at a reasonable level of competence. The difficulty of reconciling fairness with efficiency is recognized in the article. Participative management, a modern example of industrial democracy, is discussed as having potential for creating a more egalitarian workplace while at the same time increasing work output and quality. Sir William Molesworth (ed.), <i>The English Works of Thomas Hobbes</i>, excerpted in <i>Readings in Political Philosophy</i>, (Revised Edition) F. W. Coker (ed.), The Macmillan Company, New York, pp. 446-496, 1938. <i>The Works of John Locke</i> (12th Edition), Cited in Francis William Coker, <i>op. cit.</i>, London, England, pp. 529-590, 1824. <i>The Social Contract</i> (3rd Edition), Henry J. Tozer (ed.), Swan Sonnenschein and Company, London, England, 1902. <i>The Spirit of the Laws</i>, new edition, translated by Thomas Nugent and edited by J. V. Pritchard, George Bell and Sons, London, England, 1878. A. Bloom, <i>The Closing of the American Mind</i>, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987. <i>Immortality</i>, in <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, p. A10, July 16, 1991. S. and B. Webb, <i>Industrial Democracy</i>, Longmans, Green & Company Ltd., London, England, 1897. S. H. Slichter, <i>The Challenge of Industrial Relations</i>, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1947. C. Kerr, J. T. Dunlop, F. Harbison, and C. A. Myers, <i>Industrialism and Industrial Man</i>, (2nd edition), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960. J. Barbash, <i>Labor's Grass Roots</i>, Harper & Row, New York, 1961. N. W. Chamberlain and J. W. Kuhn, <i>Collective Bargaining</i>, (3rd edition), McGraw-Hill Book Company, pp. 114-115, 1986. D. W. Ewing, <i>Justice on the Job</i>, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989. A. Lindbeck, Lessons of the Welfare State, in <i>Economics of Labor in Industrial Society</i>, C. Kerr and P. D. Staudohar (eds.), Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, California, pp. 321-327, 1986. P. D. Staudohar, Labor-Management Cooperation at NUMMI, <i>Labor Law Journal, 42</i>:1, pp. 57-63, January 1991. N. Wilson and M. J. Peel, The Impact on Absenteeism and Quits of Profit-Sharing and Other Forms of Employee Participation, <i>Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 44</i>:3, pp. 454-458, April 1991. J. F. Witte, <i>Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work: Workers' Participation in an American Corporation</i>, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, p. 167, 1980.