Job Involvement - Sense of Participation - Job Satisfaction: A Triangular Framework

Abstract

The Job involvement concerns the degree to which employees identify themselves with their job. It may be influenced by the level of satisfaction of one's needs-intrinsic or extrinsic. The concept of participative management is considered as a mechanism where workers have a say in decision-making process of an organization. As a sequel to job involvement and participative management, job satisfaction increases productivity through bringing high quality motivation and through increasing working capabilities at the time of implementation. (Miller and Monge, 1986). The contextual analysis of the aforesaid three constructs is highlighted in the triangular framework in this paper. The context