Following are some of the important participative devices:
Bi-partite meetings. (Between management and workers)
To arrive at settlements concerning worker's wages and service conditions.
To review the working of existing settlements and examine their impact on work place discipline, work ethics, customer service etc.
Information sharing: To share the information about the business profitability, performance of the company, competition, marketing etc.
Joint surveys: Management and union to undertake joint surveys on the state of morale, motivation, grievance of workers, and jointly plan to tackle these problems.
Task forces: To undertake study of problems like 'ABSENTEEISM', 'INDISCIPLINE', ETC., and suggest ways to solve the problem.
Collaborative projects: To undertake certain projects, i.e. a project on employee welfare or worker's education.
Quality Circle: To involve workers at the grass root level for periodically discussing work-related problems. Quality Circles are small group of employees, which are formed voluntarily. They work on simple premise that the people who do a job everyday know more about it than any one else, particularly when quality or productivity is involved.