Advantages Of Employee Participation

According to McCall, the mechanisms that employee participation can take place are either within or outside the organization. Internal participation involves with the day to day functional of a corporation. On the contrary, the external participation may involve third party agent such as collective bargain through Union. There are three different issues available for a participation decision. First, employees can participate in the decision that involves shop-floor operation such as assigning work schedule and the distribution of job responsibilities. Second, the participation in decision making which are carried out by a middle manager. This includes performance evaluation, hiring or discharge decision. Lastly, the engagement in the board-level

It brings greater benefits to the organization because it promotes unity, maintains proper flow of communication, enhances creativity and innovation. When an employee has a say in the company, there is a sense of empowerment and are more likely to increase job satisfaction. This, in turn, reduces the employee retention and boost the overall productivity. Transparency also increases trust between employer and employee; it brings harmony in the workplace as people feel less threaten by the secretive and the unknown variable. In my experience, there is only a few organization that encourage employee participation, particularly in the board-level decision-making process. A major part of the reason is that most companies are still following the hierarchy and authoritarian management style. Including lower level employees in the decision-making process can be view as stripping power away from the top. Many private companies are also reluctant to follow the transparency concept because the fear of the competitions. Knowing that U.S workforce is changing, the employee is no longer loyal and stays at one job. The restriction of company data is placed, and only authorized employee can have access to