Tuomo Alasoini: 'From the margins to the mainstream'

Abstract

Workplace development has been sailing with a fair wind in Finland in recent years. An increasing number of workplaces, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), are in the process of reinventing their forms of work organization and systems of management. The Finnish government and the social partners have adopted a proactive role in mainstreaming the wave of workplace change. How can participatory work practices be promoted through publicly-funded initiatives like development programmes?