Department of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, College of Art and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Employee involvement in decision making plays an important role in organizations because it affects workers’ performance. The study investigated the involvement of employees in decision making and its effect on workers’ performance. Four (4) organizations were selected by simple random sampling technique. They were stratified into two (2) production and two (2) service organizations. Through proportional allocation method of the stratified sampling technique, a total of 500 respondents were selected. Questionnaires were either self-administered or through the face-to-face interview. The data was edited and analyzed with the aid of SPSS software programme. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in the analysis. The study found out that employee involvement in decision making impacted positively on workers’ commitment and performance. It was therefore recommended that management should involve employees in decision making on matters which affected the workers and the organizations as a whole.
Employees, involvement, workers’ performance, decision making, management
