أثر المشاركة في اتخاذ القرارات على الالتزام التنظيمي : دراسة ميدانية على العاملين في المؤسسات الحكومية الأردنية المخصصة بالإقراض

Abstract EN

This study aimed at finding out the impact of the participation of employees in the decision making process at the organizational commitment level in government owned financial corporations specialized in loans in Jordan.

The population of this study consisted of 1332 employees.

The sample was randomly chosen making (50%) of the popluatce (666) employees.

To achieve the aims of this study a questionnaire of 44 questions to collect the desired data was designed.

582 questionnaires (87.4 %) of the data collected were reliable.

SPSS.

V.

10 for descriptive statistics was used to analyze the collected data to find out the percentage, means and standard deviations.

Further more, Multiple Regression Analysis and Stepwise Multiple Regression were used.

The study arrived at the following conclusions : 1-The employee's perception of the decision making process was high with amean of (3.63).

2-The perception of the employees organizational commitment was medium with a mean of (3.39).

Continuance commitment came first with a mean of (3.44), then affective Commitment with a mean of (3.37), and last came normative commitment with a mean (3.35).

3-Participation in decision making process has a statistically significant influence at (a < 0.05 ) level on organizational commitment with all of its dimensions (continuance, affective, and normative).

4-There are significant statistical differences at the (a < 0.05 ) level in employees' perception of the impact of participation in the decision making process on organizational commitment due to demographic variables (experience, qualification, gender, position and age).

The study recommended that the need to enhance participation in the decision making process, be maintainedand the role of the management be activatedto develop the employees organizational commitment by training them and enriching their knowledge.

Moreover, other factors related to the organizational commitment should also stressed.