Abstract:
The purpose of the study is to investigate employee participation in decision
making and employee commitment of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA),
Takoradi. The specific objectives were to examine the influence of employee
participation in decision making on continuance commitment; assess the
influence of employee participation in decision making on affective
commitment and finally examine the influence of employee participation in
decision making on normative commitment of the staff of Ghana Revenue
Authority (GRA), Takoradi. The study adopted the quantitative research
method. The study was a descriptive and inferential statistics with 200
employees surveyed. A self-administered questionnaire was the main research
instrument and the study surveys were analysed with the help of the Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 22.0 version) software. The findings
have revealed that employee participation in decision making has a positive
influence on all the three dimensions of employee commitment. This was
noted through the use of regression analysis, which showed that the coefficient
of determination indicates a positive influence of employee participation in
decision making on all the three dimensions of commitment; namely affective,
normative and continuance. Additionally, the study found that employee
participation in decision making has a positive correlation with employee
commitment. Based on these findings it was recommended that Management
should encourage employee participation in decision making to enhance
employees’ commitment.
