EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Employee Participation (EP) is a process for empowering employees to participate in managerial decision-making which improve their levels of skills and competencies in the organization. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between EP in decision making and OP in tertiary educational institution in Nigeria. The total population is 281 academic staff consist of 127 from the Faculty of management sciences, University of Benin, 28 from Social and Management Sciences, Benson Idahosa University, 26 from Management Sciences, Ambrose Alli University (Ekpoma), and 90 from School of Business Study Auchi Polytechnic in Edo State of Nigeria while the sample size of 165 was obtained using the Yamane (1981) statistical formulae while simple regression technique adopted in the analysis of data. The reliability of the instrument test with the aid of Cronbach Alpha test showed that employee participation in decision-making has a value of 0.776 and OP has a value of 0.810. The study concluded that EP in decision-making exerted a significant positive influence on OP at 1% level of significance. The study also suggested that management of tertiary institutions and policy makers should engage employee in decision making process in order to give them the opportunity to express their opinions with share knowledge. The study therefore recommended that management of educational institution should imbibe the culture of involving employee in decision in order to improve outcome of the work force in the organizations.