If you are wondering if employee involvement really is important, take a look at work by the National Research Council. The NRC asked employees (over a period of 25 years) "If you were to get enough money to live as comfortably as you would like for the rest of your life, would you continue to work or would your stop working?" Guess how many people said they would carry on working: 70%.
Clearly people work for a range of reasons beyond paying the bills, so if work is so important to our colleagues that they would do it even if they didn't have to, don't we owe it to them to make it interesting, engaging and involving?
The Changing Nature of Work: Implications for Occupational Analysis (1999)
