Employee participation in decision making – A research study

The present article throws a clear light on the concept of participative management. The study was conducted in one of the textile mills under the control of National Textile Corporation Coimbatore, India. The present study has examined the level of workers’ participation in different levels of decision making. The study has brought out that workers perceived influence is very marginal in most of the decision areas across various decision levels. But the desire for participation is high in most of the decision areas falling under local level and medium level decision making. However workers’ inclination to participate in distant level decision making is very low. The lack of adequate enlightenment about the concept among the workers and management staff is the root cause of failure of the scheme in the textile mill under study. However if the scheme is reintroduced after imparting adequate enlightenment training to workers and management staff, it has potential to turn around in the mill administration significantly.