A study on worker participation in management and its impacts on employees productivity with special reference to Micromatic Grinding Technologies Ltd, Dobaspet

1. Sri Basaweshwara college . Tumakuru
Topic :A Study On Workers Participation In Management And It
Impacts On Employees Productivity with special reference to Micrimatic
Grinding Technologies Ltd , Dobaspet
Presented By :
T.k.Dhananjaya Kumar
Department of Social work
Research Guided by :
Saravana K
Assistant professor

2. CONTENTS
1. Title
2 Introduction
3.Review of literature
4.Significance of the study
5. Objectives of the study
6.Research methodology
7.Data collection
8.Limitation of the study
9. Reference

3. Introduction
Employee participation refers to giving employees
and their representatives opportunities to
collaborate in matters that pertain to the
management of the organization especially where
employees are directly concerned.
Employee participation is the process of the whereby
employees are involved in decision making
processes ,rather than simply acting order ,employee
participating is part of empowerment in the
workplace.

4. According to Rothmann and Rothmann
(2010), workers are more likely to experience
physical, emotional or psychological
discomfort if
they are unable to engage in their work
roles.
Engagement in work roles has many dimensions
but
more significantly, engagement signifies a
positive
attitude which an employee holds towards an

5. For the purpose of this study a worker is taken to mean any person who
has undertaken to place his gainful activity in return for a
rremuneration, under the direction of another person who may be an
individual, a private or public company or a corporation, who is styled
the employer. (Akpala 1990)
Employee/Worker

6. Productivity
The output per unit of a factor of production is called
the "productivity" of that factor. Imaga (1996)
This will be regarded as the process by which people contribute ideas
towards the solution of problems affecting the organization and allied
matters.
Participation
An organization's ability to transform inputs to output at the lowest
possible cost is its productivity, Unamka & Ewurum (1995).

7. Review of
Literature(Massarik & Tannenbaum, 1999:293).
engaging employees in decision making will help
to reduce turnover, absenteeism, the
number of grievances, and will result in a more
cooperative relationship between management
and labour .
(Davis & Lansbury, 1992:231).
engaging the employees in decision making is an
extension of the principles of democracy in the
workplace,

8. where employees can exercise greater
influence over decisions that
affect their lives at work ,
(Venter et al., 2009:473).
making employees to participate in the
decision making of an undertaking is an
acknowledgement of the vital role that
employees play in an organisation, and is
also recognition
of their economic rights ,

9. (Grogan, 2001:273). The declared aim of the encourage
participative management rather than adversarial
bargaining within an undertaking .
(Van &van 2002)
To this end, it introduces new plant-level
institutions such as WPF(s), which are intended to
promote cooperation between labour and
management. By virtue of this system, employees obtain
joint consultative powers in the
management of the undertaking with regard to issues
that concern them ,

10. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
in that it will help to minimize industrial
actions, and will enhance cooperation in the
organization .
2) this study presents the benefits of
employee participation to a Faculty.
3) this study gives the first valuable insight
on the impact of employee participation on
the productivity of a Faculty.
1) This study is significant for the discipline of Industrial Relations

11. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
Specifically, the researcher intends to
1)To know the socio- demographic profile of the
respondents,
2)Ascertain the level of workers participation in
decision making of the organization.
1)Examine the perception of workers towards participative management
policy in an enterprise.
3)The type of decisions employees are involved in.
4)Verify if employees opinions are made use of after
being collected.

12. Research Methodology
1. Research Design : social work researcher used
"Descriptive Research design"
2.Aim of the study: workers participation in
management and it's impact on employees productivity.
3. Universe of the study: employees who are
working as part time or full time is considering as a
universal of the study
4)Sample design : The researcher is adopting non-
probability Sampling design,
5)The sampling techniques is “purposive sampling
techniques”

13. Data collection
• Primary data :The
Researcher take the
primary data from
organization,
• Observation
• Communication
• Interview schedule
self structure questions ,
Secondary data :
• The Researcher collect
secondary data from different
sources:
•Magazines. Books
•Journals. Newspaper
•Websites
•Published and unpublished
sources

14. Limitations of the study
This study is about participatory
management, this is due to limited
time and finance being faced by the
researcher,

15. Major Findings
• The mean score (M=4.05, SD=0.94) clearly indicates that, the participative decision
making has high impact on respondents.
• The mean score (M=3.87, SD=0.93) clearly indicates that, the employee
involvement in management has high impact on respondents.
• The mean score (M=3.96, SD=0.90) clearly indicates that, the participation in
management has medium impact on respondents.
• The mean score (M=3.95, SD=0.90) clearly indicates that, the employee
relationships between participation in management and increased employee
commitment and productivity of the respondents has medium impact on
respondents.
• The mean score (M=3.91, SD=0.93) clearly indicates that, the employee
participation attitude in management of the respondents,

16. Major findings
• The highest age of the respondents belongs to age group of 51 year and lowest age
group belongs to 18 years among the respondents.
• The highest 72.31 percentage of the respondents having ITI qualification in the
industry.
• The highest percentage of the respondents are 60.0 percentage of respondents are married
and 40.0 percentage of the respondents are unmarried.
• The highest 63.08 percentage of the respondent are permanent employees in this Industry .
• The highest of the respondents 61.54 percentage of the respondents are 5 years above
experience in this industry.
• The majority of the respondents are i.e. 81 percentage of the respondents are joint family in
this industry.
• The highest respondents 43.08 percentage of the respondents are taking 15,000 and above
monthly salary.

17. Recommendations
• Involve employees participation from lower level to higher
level decision making
• To conduct the motivational programmes regarding the
participation in management
• Involving the all employees while adopting the new rules and
regulations

18. References
1) G,Rathanakar (Sept 9,2012)International journal of
marketing ,financial service &management research ,A study of
workers participation in management decision making , Hyderabad ,
2) TCHAPCHET EMMANUEL TAMEN. 2013 The impact of employee
participation on organisational productivity at a university of
Technology in the Western Cape, South Africa
3) Charles Align Eli. 2014
Employee participation and productivity in a South African
university.
Implications for human resource management,

19. THANK YOU