How Did Dave Stewart Use Employee Involvement?

One of Cummings and Worley essential elements of Employee Involvement (EI) that Dave Stewart, CEO of CNE used to involve employees of CNE was information. Information is how readily critical information is accessible to make effective decisions. Therefore, Dave Stewart promoted EI by guaranteeing essential information flows freely to the right authorities. For example, “data about operating results, business plans, competitive conditions, new technologies and work methods, and ideas for organizational improvement” (2015, p. 376). Moreover, Dave Stewart developed a group called the Team of 8, which included managers from diverse departments to be responsible for various methods to get others on board and engaged in the innovation of the CNE project. The Team of 8 did the following to get information out:
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This idea was to allow this information to spread throughout the company informally. It also, encouraged those engaged to use their own informal network to spread information across the organization. Dave Stewart met with every supervisor in CNE, but encouraged the team to use a combination of structured and informal contacts.
• One of the team members created a group of 15 ambassadors who controlled the communications efforts of the team. Therefore, the members went way and beyond to communicate and educate their connections and friends. This “grapevine” (Carlin, Dean, Kern, Searcy, & Stanley, 2011, p. 33) approached proved to be extremely successful in motivating CNE employees. The more information that was “leaked,” (Carlin et al, 2011,
p. 33) the more excitement and discussion spread throughout the organization. Thus, the Team of 8 became champions of change a reliable source of information, delivering the word.
• The structured plan included a rollout of employees that consisted of events designed