Workers' self-management is a form of workplace management in which the employees themselves make decisions on issues like hours, production, scheduling, division of labour etc.

Also known as autogestion, workers' self-management is often the decision-making model used in co-operative economic arrangements such as worker cooperatives, workers' councils, and in participatory economics, and similar arrangements where the workplace operates without a boss. A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and operated by its worker-owners. There are no outside, or consumer owners, in a workers cooperative - only the workers own shares of the business. ... A workers council is a council, or deliberative body, composed of working class or proletarian members. ... Participatory economics, or parecon, a participatory economics system proposed as an alternative to other systems such as capitalism and coordinatorism, emerged from the work of the radical theorist Michael Albert and of the radical economist Robin Hahnel, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s. ...

See Also

• Co-operatives
• Direct democracy
• Anarcho-syndicalism