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Management Policies and Employees

This paper addresses management policies and problems in developing communication techniques with employees that result in effective management leadership as well as productive, satisfied employees. This paper identifies problem areas and discusses ways of improving management communication.

Effective in-house communication is vital to an organization's success. Prerequisites for success include meaningful objectives, people, information and resources. These Prerequisites are interrelated: the more information employees have about their company's objectives, the easier the objectives are to achieve. Effective communications must be multi-directional, flowing down from management, up from the operating levels, and from staff to staff. Information can be oral or written through such channels as company newsletters or magazines, meetings or seminars, or even broadcast media. In addition, good listening skills are essential for effective communication. Comprehension with empathy is necessary to make employees feel valuable.

Today's takeovers and mergers multiply the need to utilize management communication techniques. Organizational and departmental change can affect employee behavior, and it is up to management to ensure positive behavior. Management can help facilitate change implementation by employing effective leadership skills such as not demanding cooperation, understanding employee resistance to change, and encouragement of employee participation in decision making.

Participative management involves the input of non-management employees into the management decision making process (The concept, rooted in democratic principles, was formulated by behavioral scientists in the United States). Participative management has probably been the best known feature of Japanese organizations (Pascale and Athos, 1981). The Japanese have shown the world that Participative management can be successful if adapted to the culture ...

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