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EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES
ABSTRACT
This study focused on Employee Participation and Organizational Productivity of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises. The study used a cross sectional design and the study adopted the cross-sectional survey method in the generation of data. The target population of the study is the entire SMEs registered with SMEDAN in Bauchi State totaling 364. The sample size was obtained using the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table for determining minimum returned sample size for a given population. For our population, the table placed our sample size at one hundred and eighty three (183). After data cleaning, only data of 169 respondents were finally used for data analysis. The sampling procedure to be used in this study is the purposive sampling technique which focused on owners and operators. Descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank correlation were used for data analysis and hypothesis testing. Empirical results confirm that there is a positive significant relationship between Employee Participation in Decision Making and Organizational Productivity of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises. The study concluded that Employee Participation has a positive and significant relationship with profitability and market share as measures of organizational productivity. The study recommended that management must make it a part of its standard policy to ensure all employees opinions, suggestions, view are subjected to their merit and accepted where applicable after employees‟ consultation. Employees should be allowed to make contribution in policy development as they play a major role in policy implementation and this among others will increase organizational productivity through employee delegation.
Key Words: Employee Participation in Decision Making, Organizational Productivity, Market Share and
Profitability