Participation in decision making

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Participation in decision making
 
Creator Valoyi, EG Lessing, B C Schepers, J M
 
Subject Human resource management; employment relations Participation; Decision making
Description The aim of the present study was to determine the extent to which employees would like to participate in decision making concerning various organisational issues, especially those concerning: the work itself, working conditions, human resources issues, and corporate policy and planning. The sample consisted of 146 participants, including managers, middle managers, and junior officials from a South African development corporation. A questionnaire to measure employees' desire to participate in decision making was specially constructed for this investigation. It has found that employees with higher academic qualifications were more desirous to participate in decision-making at all levels than employees with lower academic qualifications. This was also true for employees in higher job grades than in lower job grades. Men were more desirous to participate in decision making than women. The implications of the findings are discussed.

Opsomming
Die doel van die huidige studie was om vas te stel in watter mate werknemers sal wil deelneem aan die besluit- nameproses van organisasies, veral rakende die volgende sake: die werk self, werksomstandighede, menslike hulpbronaangeleenthede en korporatiewe beleid en beplanning. Die steekproef het uit 146 deelnemers, insluitende bestuurders, middelvlakbestuurders en junior amptenare van'n Suid Afrikaanse ontwikkelingskorporasie, bestaan. nVraelys wat die begeerte van werknemers meet om aan die besluitnameproses deel te neem, is spesiaal vir die doel van hierdie ondersoek, ontwerp. Dit is bevind dat werknemers met hoer akademiese kwalifikasies meer begerig is om aan die besluitnameproses op alle vlakke deel te neem as werknemers met laer akademiese kwalifikasies. Dit was ook waar vir werknemers in hoervlakposte vergeleke met werknemers in laervlakposte. Mans was ook meer begerig om aan die besluitnameproses deel te neem as vroue. Die implikasies van die studie word bespreek.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor
Date 2000-06-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — a questionnaire to measure employees' desire to participate in decision making was specially constructed
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajip.v26i3.717
 
Source SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 26, No 3 (2000); 32-38 2071-0763 0258-5200
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2000 EG Valoyi, B C Lessing, J M Schepers https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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