EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING AND JOB COMMITMENT OF WORKERS IN DELTA STATE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

Abstract

The study examined the effect of employee participation in decision-making on job commitment of workers in Delta State Internal Service (DIRS), Asaba, Nigeria. Specifically, the sought to determine the relationship between employee participation in decision making and affective, continuance and normative commitment of workers in Delta State Internal Revenue Service. A descriptive survey research design was adopted and data was collected via a survey of one hundred and give (105) respondents randomly selected from the population of 143 employees. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and multiple regression analysis with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 23. The results of the study showed that there is a significant relationship between employee participation in decision-making and affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment of workers in Delta State Internal Revenue Service. As predicted, the study also revealed that employee participation in decision-making exerts a positive and statistically significant effect on job commitment of workers in Delta State Internal Revenue Service. Based on these findings, the study concludes that employee participation in decision-making has significant influence on job commitment of workers. The study therefore recommends among others that management should endeavour to involve their employees in decision-making in order to achieve optimum commitment of their workers.