The aims of this survey were: to explore role and functions of the board of directors in modern private sector companies; to compare impressions of current and other possible approaches to decision making held by individuals at key levels within sampled companies; to discover the incidence and importance of the main forms of industrial democracy in current environment; to seek the views held at key levels on the prospects for worker participation at board level; to investigate whether the answers given by individuals at key levels in the same company showed a propensity to be the same or different. Variables Data was collected from directors about boardroom practice and current forms of worker participation in terms of negotiations, joint consultation, disclosure policy. Attitudes towards <i>worker directors</i> were probed.