A participação como instrumento da modernização organizacional

Abstract

This article describes participation as one of the objective possibilities to overcome bureaucratic and deterministic obstacles in the search for organizational modernization. The experience of some Brazilian corporations are reported to illustrate participation as a basic need of human beings and, consequently, of business organizations. Thus, corporations looking for the socalled "modern pattern" of planning and participation should be willing to review their organizational culture, power structure, communication and information systems, learning and development processes, in order to endorse participation and participative planning as skills which can be both learned and improved. KEYWORDS: Participation; Planning; Modernization