UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, FAISALABAD

(Institute of Business Management Sciences

Course: Islamic Finance

Assignment Topic:

Submitted to: Dr. Nazam

Submitted by: Zahid Nawaz

Registration No : 2019-ag-6739

Degree: BBA
Semester: 8th
Summary

Total employee involvement (TEI) is a management philosophy that encourages individual

contributors, team members, and employees to actively participate in decision-making,
problem-solving, and planning processes that affect their organization. TEI aims to engage
the workforce to contribute directly to the improvement of the organization and promote
employee motivation and retention. Employee involvement is a participative process that
uses the input of employees to increase their commitment to the organization’s success. TEI
involves employee motivation, empowerment, teams, performance appraisal, and
communication. The outcomes of TEI include improved organizational decision-making
capability, improved attitude towards work, improved employee well-being, reduced costs,
increased employee productivity, empowerment, job satisfaction, creativity, commitment,
motivation, and intent to stay. Major forms of employee involvement include participative
management, representative participation, and quality circles. Cultural differences,
management resistance, and employee and union resistance are challenges that need to be
overcome for successful implementation of TEI. Examples of organizations that involve
employees in decision-making are Wegmans grocery stores, while examples of forms of
employee involvement are work councils, board representatives, and quality circles.

The benefits of employee involvement include increased motivation, performance, and sense
of responsibility for the long-term success of the enterprise. It can also contribute to
improved decision-making, reduced costs, and increased productivity. However, there are
challenges to implementing employee involvement, including cultural differences,
management resistance, and employee and union resistance.

There are several major forms of employee involvement, including participative

management, representative participation, and quality circles. Participative management
involves sharing decision-making power between subordinates and their immediate
supervisor. Representative participation involves small groups of employees representing
labor interests in decision-making processes. Quality circles are voluntary groups of
employees who meet regularly to solve work-related problems and improve work quality.

Examples of employee involvement in practice include Wegmans grocery stores, which

involve employees in decision-making that affects their work and customers, and the use of
work councils and board representatives in Europe to represent employee interests in
decision-making. Quality circles are also commonly used in many organizations to involve
employees in problem-solving and decision-making.