*Department of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Leadership and Management, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
**Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Online published on 18 April, 2015.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of employee participation in decision making on academic staffs’ organizational commitment in the private and public universities in Kenya. This survey study was a form of a cross-section study where descriptive research design was used. The study targeted all the academic staff in the public and private universities in Kenya. Stratified sampling was used where sixteen universities were selected followed by simple random sampling to select both representative department and staff from the selected departments. Data for the study was collected by administering a 25-item questionnaire to a sample of 347 academic. A total of 282 questionnaires were returned and analysis was done with the help of SPSS. To test the hypothesis for the study t-test and F-test were used. Correlation and regression analysis were also done. The study found that employee participation in decision making significantly influence university academic staffs’ organizational commitment in Kenya. The study recommended that university academic staffs should be involved in making decisions especially those that affect their working life.
Employee Commitment, Employee Participation, Decision Making, University Academic Staff
