High involvement management
High involvement management practices were described by Wood (2010) as
follows:
Source review High involvement management defined
– Wood (2010: 410)
High involvement management includes: first, practices such as teamworking, flexible job
descriptions, and idea capturing schemes, which are means of ensuring greater flexibility,
proactivity and collaboration; and second, practices that give workers the opportunities for
the acquisition of skills and knowledge that are needed to ensure they have the capacities
to work in an involved way. They include intensive training geared towards teamworking,
functional flexibility and information sharing, particularly about the economics and market
of the business.