Ideas in this flowchart

• Open-book management as a participatory work environment
• It is one of the better-known approaches to creating a participatory workplace.
• More than 2,000 companies have adopted this practice.
• The practice shares financial information with nonmanagement employees.
• Employees receive training to understand the financial information.
• The practice should be evaluated for its effects on employees and productivity.
• Employee motivation
• Productivity improvement
• The NCEO website provides articles offering further insight into open-book management.
• Read several NCEO articles about the practice.
• Develop answers about whether open-book management motivates employees and improves productivity.