The benefits in using participative management in the human service field are enormous. As our reading indicated a prerequisite for participation in decision making is that individuals must have knowledge, experience, or expertise that they can contribute (Weinbach & Taylor, 2015). Whereas most human service workers are working directly with clients on a daily basis and are expert on what the client needs and managers making the decision are removed from day to day contact with clients(Austin, 2002). Another benefit for human service agencies using this type of management is many employees are overworked and work within hostile work environments which could leave them feeling disgruntled and disillusioned. However effective leadership will
