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Volume 22, Issue 6
1 June 1999
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Research Article| June 01 1999

The effects of employee participation and work design on firm performance: A managerial perspective

George Gyan‐Baffour
George Gyan‐Baffour
Howard University, 2400 Sixth Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6135
Print ISSN: 0140-9174
© MCB UP Limited
1999
Management Research News (1999) 22 (6): 1–12.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01409179910781689

Presents the results of a study looking at the influence of employee participation and flexible work design on productivity change and process quality. Considers whether there is a complementary relationship between participation and flexible work design and investigates if firms employing both of these items together perform better than others.

Keywords: Employee involvement, Work design, Productivity, Organizational performance
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