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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

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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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.