Exploring the Relationship among Employee Participation and Job Satisfaction, Employee Commitment and Employee Performance

Dr. Damas Dominic Suta

Abstract: The main assumption of this study is the belief that the employee participation may affect employees' job satisfaction; employees' commitment; employees' performance and they all can create comparative advantage for the organization. The aim of this study was to find out the link among employees' participation, job satisfaction, employees' commitment, employees' performance. Meta - analysis approach was adopted in exploring the relationship between independent variable and dependent variables. The finding of the study clearly reveals that employees' participation not only an important determinant of job satisfaction facets. Increasing employees' participation have a positive effect on employees' job satisfaction, employees' commitment and employees' performance. The study found that, the increasing employees' participation is a long - term process, which demands both attention from management and initiative from the employees.

Keywords: The Link, employee participation, Job satisfaction, employee commitment, employee performance