Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 7

Investigating the relationship between Employee Involvement, Employee Empowerment and Employee Satisfaction in a large Manufacturing Environment

*Research Scholar, Department of Business Administration, Utkal University Campus, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

**Head, Department of Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, Utkal University Campus, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Online published on 6 July, 2015.

Abstract

An employee survey conducted by a large manufacturing company in Odisha state of India was the basis of this research study. A mixed type of research methodology was conducted to examine the relationships between employee involvement, empowerment, and satisfaction with respect to two employee categories. Employee involvement was found to be significantly related to employee empowerment and employee empowerment was found to be significantly related to employee satisfaction. For each of the above mentioned aspects, four latent factors were studied through employee survey. Moreever, executive employees showed little bit dissatifaction in comparision to non-executive employees.

Keywords

Employee involvement, Employee empowerment, Employee satisfaction, Employee category, Manufacturing company