PARTICIPATION AT THE ENTERPRISE LEVEL.

[Few experiments in participation have taken place, and even fewer have been controlled in a scientific manner. One of the exceptions is the "industrial democracy" project undertaken in several Norwegian enterprises by Professor Finar Thorsrud of Oslo, Norway, with the assistance of the Tavistock Institute of London. This project represents an especially interesting attempt to reconcile the economic objectives of creativity and efficiency with the human objectives of development, responsibility, and free initiative. When viewed in such a perspective, participation can acquire its most concrete and undoubtedly most dynamic dimensions. The following paper presents the problems to which the experiments relate, as well as a summary of Professor Thorsrud's presentation before the Belgian Productivity Board (OBAP - Office Beige pour l'Accroissement de la Productivité) in December 1968.] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]