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The aims of this survey were: to explore role and functions of the board of directors in modern private sector companies; to compare impressions of current and other possible approaches to decision making held by individuals at key levels within sampled companies; to discover the incidence and importance of the main forms of industrial democracy in current environment; to seek the views held at key levels on the prospects for worker participation at board level; to investigate whether the answers given by individuals at key levels in the same company showed a propensity to be the same or different.

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Variables Data was collected from directors about boardroom practice and current forms of worker participation in terms of negotiations, joint consultation, disclosure policy. Attitudes towards <i>worker directors</i> were probed.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

two stage

Face-to-face interview