THE RECOMMENDATIONS

Workers' participation as a programme cannot succeed
without intensive workers’ education programme. There is a need
to embark upon a vigorous programme of workers’ education.
The programme of workers’ education should apply to both the
management and the workers. So far the tendency has been to
neglect the management in workers’ education. The programmes
drafted by TANU, NUTA, the Labour Ministry and N.I.P. for
workers’ education tend to relate only to the Workers’ Council
members (and normally the workers' representatives) and the
workers, and not the management. It is important that the
management must have also their share in workers’ education.
W hat the management need is political education which should be
geared towards making the management change their traditional
behaviour and attitudes. They must be re-educated in socialist
beliefs and attitudes. Only by turning them into socialists (in at-
titudes and behaviour) can they fully implement the policy of
workers' participation. The Party has the responsibility of re-
educating them in socialist attitudes.

The workers also need education. They need to be taught the
art of management. This requires teaching the workers
professional skills in their jobs. It is, useless to give the workers
management responsibilities if they have no managerial skills.
Workers' participation should not be at the expense of efficient
management. Efficiency in the enterprises must be maintained and
increased if workers' participation is to be a real success. Since the
final goal is to hand over full managerial powers to the workers,
there is need for an intensive training in skills that are relevant to
the places of work. The kind of knowledge and skills which the
workers need should be on the principles of industrial or factory
management which should include the study of the balance sheet,
labour laws and industrial relations laws, wage policies, produc-
tivity promotion and trade union studies. Already N.I.P. has star-
ted both short term programme of Workers Education for the
Workerss Council and the Permanent Workers' Education
Programme for the workers. This latter programme is hoped to be
on a permanent basis. TANU, NUTA and Labour are also in-
volved in this venture. However, although these programmes are
good it seems that only the institutions above are involved in the
programme and the individual enterprises are not seriously

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