Role of Participative Decision–Making in Improving Employees’ Commitment towards Organizational Goal፡ the Case of Unilever Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Legesse, Ethiopia(Phd) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vazan, Delfen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-21T14:39:10Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T09:39:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-21T14:39:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T09:39:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-03 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study aims to assessing the Effect of Participative Decision-Making on improving employees’ commitment towards organizational goals in Unilever Ethiopia. More particularly, it aims to investigate stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of employees’ participation in company management and decision-making. Employees’ involvement is a contested issue in the company. The study employs an explanatory and descriptive research design and uses quantitative approach. A questionnaire related to employees’ participation in decision making and employees’ commitment was administered. A survey is conducted by using structured close ended questionnaires which is distributed to 162 Unilever employees. Descriptive, correlation and multiple regression statistical tools were used to examine the relationship between participative decision making and employees’ commitment. The results revealed that the extent of participation in decision making, mechanism employed by management to ensure participation in decision making and perception regarding PDM in improving employees’ commitment towards organizational goal in Unilever was high. It was also noted that main challenges associated with participation in decision making are moderate. More over the study found that the effect of participation in decision making on employees commitment was very high. The finding also suggested that extent and mechanism participation in decision making have strong and positive relationship with employees’ commitment. Whereas the challenge of participation in decision making have moderate and shows a little bit negative relationship with employees’ commitment. Finally, it has recommended that better Extent and mechanism of employees’ participation and the avoidance of challenges associated with participation in decision making would continue to improve the commitment of employees towards organizational goal and further studies are forwarded. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/27289 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A.A.U | en_US |
| dc.subject | Decision making | en_US |
| dc.subject | Participation, Employees’ Commitment | en_US |
| dc.title | Role of Participative Decision–Making in Improving Employees’ Commitment towards Organizational Goal፡ the Case of Unilever Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |