Role of psychological participation in job involvement of public sector employees

For the effective and efficient output from the employees, organizations provide a participative environment through which employees develop a sense of active involvement. Involvement with job is prior concern of organizations, as it provides employees to explore their attachment with their job and organization. Employee participation is a complex process involving employees’ interaction, communication between participants with the intent to influence each other and helpful in problem solving and decision making process. Psychological participation is subjective in nature. Job involvement and psychological participation are two important organizational behavioral attributes which influence the employee's performance. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between psychological participation, its facets and job involvement of the employees. The present study was conducted on 188 employees of public sector industry. In this paper, the results indicate that psychological participation is significantly positively correlated with job involvement. Employees with low level of psychological participation are found to be less involved in their job in comparison to employees with high level of participation.