In which one of the following forms of worker's participation in management is the role of the workers council not just advisory but the management is under a moral obligation to acknowledge, accept and implement the unanimous decision of the council ? 

Workers Participation in Management :

Worker's participation in management means giving scope for workers to influence the managerial decision-making process at different levels by various forms in the organization.

Levels of Participation:

1. Informative Participation:

• This refers to management’s information sharing with workers on such items that are concerned with workers. 
• Balance Sheets, production, economic conditions of the plant, etc., are examples of such items. 

2. Consultative Participation:

• In this type of participation, workers are consulted in those matters which relate to them. 
• Here, the role of workers is restricted to give their views only. 
• However, the acceptance and non-acceptance of these views depend on management. 

3. Associative Participation:

• Here, the role of the workers’ council is not just advisory, unlike consultative participation. 
• In a way, this is an advanced and improved form of consultative participa­tion. 
• Now, the management is under a moral obligation to acknowledge, accept, and implement the unanimous decision of the council.

4. Administrative Participation:

• In administrative participation, decisions already are taken are implemented by the workers. 
• Compared to the former three levels of participation, the degree of sharing authority and responsibility by the workers is definitely more in this participation.

5. Decisive Participation:

• Here, the decisions are taken jointly by the management and the workers of an organization.
• In fact, this is the ultimate level of workers’ participation in management.