Participation in Decision Making: Research, Results and Hypotheses

This report evaluates initial empirical studies on participation as well as the cross-national experience of workers participation in decision making. Though the more empirical studies show the effectiveness of participation, the cross national experience has not been all that encouraging. It is suggested that experiments on worker’s participation have, by and large ignored to control and/or eliminate intervening variables several hypotheses that take into account some of the intervening variables have been pointed out.