Employee Participation in Decision Making and its impact on Organizational Performance: Evidence from Government Owned Enterprises, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the impact of employee participation in decision making on organizational performance using Government Owned Enterprises in Port-Harcourt, River State as a case study. The population of study comprised managers and employees of the selected firm in Port-Harcourt River state. The sample for the study was given as 125. Out of the 125 questionnaires administered to the participant only 100 were returned while 25 were not returned. The study was analyzed using of tables and percentage while the three hypotheses were tested with the aid of ANOVA. The result from the research shows that employee participation in decision making has positive effect on organizational performance. This study recommends the following; Organizations are encourage to design their firm in such a way that it will boot free flow of decision making in their organization and gives room for full involvement of their employee to participate and create efficiency on organizational decision making process. Again, Firms are advised to put more mechanisms that will encourage their employees to come up with better innovative ways of achieving and promoting organizational performance, and also Firms are commended to improve the level of workers involvement in decision making between employees and employer, finally, Every firm is advised to create a straightforward understanding and notion of the concept of participative decision making to avoid conflicts of interest among the employees and the employer.