11.   Bond said the benefits of employee involvement are two fold.

12.   Concepts vary from using work teams to mandating employee involvement and to having employee suggestion programs, he said.

13.   Countless studies have found a clear link between employee involvement in decision-making and subsequent increases in productivity.

14.   Employee involvement at this stage of the process will increase the likelihood of having a quality program that is actually followed.

15.   In some cases, corporations are encouraging employee involvement by offering so-called social service sabbaticals to deserving employees.

16.   It is clear that motivation often increases as a result of employee involvement in decision-making that affects their work.

17.   Regardless of what program they establish, countless studies have shown that employee involvement in the decision-making that affects their work has a highly motivational effect.

18.   Some businesses in other fields encourage employee involvement in politics as well, often because the chief executive is politically active.

19.   Those sins covered a range of corporate missteps, from inconsistent product quality to a lack of employee involvement in management.

20.   To be sure, employee involvement is not always necessary and in certain forms can border on being illegal.