Participative Redesign of Work System and Enrichment of the Quality of Work Life

摘要

This paper seeks to explore the theme of motivation in the work place in the public enterprises in one of the Asian countries, i.e., India. The participation line of approach taken in this paper has concrete evidences in two Asian countries - Japan and India. This paper concentrates on Indian studies. The paper has four sections: Section I: It will examine the characteristics of the currently predominant work organization, their impact on human motivation and a search for the alternatives; Section II: A presentation of three typical action research cases from India to provide concreteness to the analysis undertaken in Section I; Section III: Some reflections on the learning derived from the cases presented in Section II; Section IV: Some tentative concluding comments asking a few questions arising from the cases; also exploration of some issues for further critical examination.