While in participative management organizational designs workers are listened to and take part in the decision-making process, in organizations employing industrial democracy they also have the final decisive power ( they decide about organizational design and hierarchy as well ).
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Although it was a new idea in the 1950s, Gordon's Leader Effectiveness Training ( L . E . T . ) program became more popular in the 1970s with the increasing acceptance of participative management in the U . S . This course has been taught in hundreds of companies, including many of the Fortune 500.