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Participative Decision Making

Participative decision-making is the extent to which team members  allow or encourage members to share or participate in organizational decision-making.  In a group, members may or may not participate in decisions affecting the team.  Conformity often appears more important than positive results.  Win/lose situations are common.   In a team, members participate in decisions affecting the team but understand their leader must make a final ruling whenever the team cannot decide, or an emergency exists.  Positive win/win results are the goal at all times. It is useful  to Job satisfaction, Organizational commitment, Perceived organizational support, Organizational citizenship behavior, Labor-management relations, Job performance and organizational performance, Task productivity, Organizational profits Employee absenteeism. It involves in identification of problems, Providing solutions, Selecting solutions, Planning implementation, and Evaluating results. Participative Management decisions are opened form of management  decisions where team members are actively involved in the organization’s decision making process.