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| Title: | Can Government Facilitate Participative Workplace Change? An Examination of the Workplace Challenge Project in the Cape Fish Processing Industry |
| Authors: | Godfrey, Shane Maree, Johann |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 62 |
| Pages: | 30-58 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | workers' participation industrial policy fisheries Labor and Employment Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/210427 |
| Abstract: | The Workplace Challenge Project (WCP) was launched by South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry in 1995. The broad aim of the WCP - to assist South African firms to transform into world class performers - fits within the realm of industrial policy, but has a unique feature in that it has a compulsory requirement that both management and workers must participate in the improvement project undertaken at the firm. Using the fish processing industry in the Western Cape as a case study, this paper examines the implementation of the WCP with a focus on the participatory aspects in order to assess how successful the WCP was in initiating performance improvement rooted in worker participation. The paper shows that the WCP was not very effective in terms of improving performance in the fish processing industry but was reasonably successful in changing workers' attitudes in certain respects. The reason for the poor results was that the WCP conceived of worker participation in far too simplistic a way and underestimated the range of changes that need to take place to support effective and sustainable worker participation. App., bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
