Democratic Patterns of Interaction as a Norm for the Workplace

Analyzing the Archiving Management Performance in the Department of Public Works and Spatial Planning

“…Employees should be able to account for all forms of work patterns, socialization patterns in the office environment, and all forms of actions related to the vision and mission of the agency or institution (Frega, 2020;Torsello, 2019). In the archival management service, employees must have a desire to be more responsible for the vision and mission set by the office, maintain communication relations between employees and especially the provision of better services so that in the future archival services will better support the results to be achieved (Ndenje-Sichalwe, 2010).…”

Migration andDemosin the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy

“…Critics like Cohen (1978Cohen ( [1927) and Anderson (2015Anderson ( , 2017 describe the sovereign-like power of captains of industry and employers over their employees-both during and beyond the working day. On the other hand, the recent debate on the state-firm analogy has focused on whether the analogy can be used to justify workplace democracy (Frega 2020a;González-Ricoy 2022;Gould 2019;Landemore and Ferreras 2016;Mayer 2001). The basic idea here is that if democracy is widely accepted as the only normatively valid constitutional form for states, then we need to ask ourselves whether this is so also for other important human associations, like firms, in which power is organized and decisions must be made.…”

“…Recent debates in political philosophy have seen numerous critiques and defenses of the analogy between states and firms. What is at stake in these debates is the question of whether we can interpret the relationships within firms as political relationships so that we can subsequently apply democratic standards to them (Frega 2020a;Frega, Herzog, and Neuhäuser 2019;González-Ricoy 2022;Landemore and Ferreras 2016;Mayer 2001). Work in employment relations and organization studies, on the other hand, has empirically explored alternatives to traditional hierarchical firms, assessing their potential as democratic frameworks for organizing business in a capitalist economy (e.g., Pendleton 2001;Rothschild and Russell 1986;Varman and Chakrabarti 2004).…”

“…Some political and organizational theorists have questioned whether the analogy between states and firms is a good one, arguing that the institutional structures and norms that organize the two are fundamentally different (Frega 2020a;Mayer 2001), whereas others have recently defended the analogy (González-Ricoy 2022). We not only defend the analogy as useful for understanding issues of power and justice in and around workplaces but further argue that firms and states are so closely connected within the institutional fabric of capitalist societies that this analogy belongs within a broader analysis of how state and firm may be imbricated both institutionally and functionally in ways that should seriously affect how we debate, value, and analyze workplace democracy.…”

Digital transformation of work: spillover effects of workplace innovation on social innovation

“…Some have contended that democratising the workplace can improve society's overall democratic quality thanks to spillover effects. Others have noted that economic democracy is the necessary precondition for political democracy so that a democratic workplace is a means for achieving the ultimate goal of political democracy (Frega 2019). These spillover effects mean that having 'voice' in the work situation increases the probability of making one's voice heard outside the workplace, in the community or in politics (Pateman 1970;Akkerman 2017).…”