1. Likert’s participative management & communication implications of human behavior school
Madeline McGarey

2. About me Junior Organizational Communication Major
After graduating I would like to be involved in event planning
Course Objectives:
Enhance my knowledge of Organizational Communication
Develop my speaking skills

3. overview Who is Rensis Likert? Participate Management What is it?
How to achieve participative management
Linking Pin Function
Human Behavior Perspective
How it’s used in Contemporary Organizations

4. Rensis Likert 1903-1981 Professor of Sociology and Psychology
Director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan
Developed the Participative Management Theory

5. Participative Management
Theory of employee-centered management based on effectively functioning groups linked together structurally through the organization
Management process should depend on participative groups formed to have overlapping individuals among groups
Involves increased participation at all levels of an organization
Rejects many of the assumptions of the Scientific Management

6. Participative Management
Active participation
Free-flow of communication in all directions
Increased motivation
Promotes creativity
Employees are both senders and receivers
Employees are deciding where they want to be in their organization

7. Participative Management
In order to have effective Participative Management:
Be sure that members have effective leadership and membership skills to increase easy interaction among the organization
The groups involved should have a comfortable working relationship to ensure the free-flow of communication
Those involved must be loyal to the organization and to each other so there is a mutual feeling of trust all around
Should perform in the “linking pin” function and keep the goals from their group in line with the other groups goals

8. Linking Pin Function

9. human behavior perspective
Management is supposed to trust employees so that they feel comfortable to freely discuss information with their supervisors
Peer-group interaction is a positive influence for productivity
Communication between all levels is expected to be extensive and friendly

10. Contemporary organizations
Committees, project teams and work units
Training for management and supervisors helps them to develop their interpersonal communication skills
New employees go through orientation so they make an easy transition and are able to communicate easily with their new employees
Awards are given to employees for their involvement in the organization