The Company Democracy Model: Creating Innovative Democratic Work Cultures for Effective Organizational Knowledge-Based Management and Leadership

The Company Democracy Model (CDM) is a practical methodology for knowledge management utilization that empowers the creation of knowledge-based democratic cultures for wise and effective strategic management and leadership. It aims to create a robust conceptual framework for a business strategy, emphasize the importance of intellectual capital, and use its symbolic infrastructure to build solid democratic systems for viable business development and management.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 396 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Company democracy is often misunderstood in the business context, as democracy is usually related to politics. In this book, the authors present a different dimension. They focus first on democracy from an organizational culture perspective and then offer employees opportunities to understand and apply democracy from the company floor level.

The Company Democracy Model (CDM) is an industry-wide, practical methodology for knowledge management utilization under applied philosophical thinking. The model progresses through a framework in which an organizational evolutionary spiral method empowers the creation of knowledge-based democratic cultures for wise and effective strategic management and leadership. This new innovative methodology, supported with techniques and processes, can gain/create many ideas, insights, innovations, new products, and services that can benefit a company.

One purpose of using the model is to create a robust conceptual framework as a theoretical basis for a business strategy that promotes sustainable, continuous, and democratic development. Another purpose is to emphasize the importance of intellectual capital and compare capital-related and human-related business issues in shaping a company's competitiveness, profitability, productivity, performance, and shared value. A third purpose is to use its symbolic infrastructure that builds solid democratic systems for viable business development and management. Finally, the described purposes give the reader new ideas to change and improve the design of business activities in a collective and modern democratic way.

Weight: 904g
Dimension: 177 x 251 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367745622