Abstract

Decision-making in organizations have been the domain of top management but without the participation of those in the lower treads of the ranking of management, yet they are the very ones expected to see to the implementation of these decisions. Employee involvement in decision-making has attracted the attention of practitioners, researchers and scholars in labour relations circles. The study investigated the impact of employees’ involvement in decision making on organizational performance Delta State Sea Port Delta State Nigeria. The specific objectives are to: (a) evaluate the impact of employee board representation on organizational performance in Delta sea-port Delta State; (b) investigate the impact of employee collective bargaining on organizational growth in Delta sea-port Delta State. The research design of the study was descriptive survey research method. The sample size of 199 respondents was drawn from population of 394 employees ofDelta sea-port in Delta State. Method of data analysis was mean score, standard deviation and regression statistics. The findings of the study revealed that there was positive and significance impact of employee board representation on organizational performance in Delta sea-port Delta State since board representation creates a relationship between the management (t-statistics (6.423) > P-values (0.000), it also revealed that there was positive but insignificance impact of employee collective bargaining on organizational growth in Delta sea-port in Delta State since employee collective bargaining does not gives the employee a secure acceptance around wages and salaries decision and other conditions such as housing, transport, leave allowance of employee (t-statistics (6.423) > P-values (0.000). The study recommended that management of Delta sea-port should make it a part of its standard policy to ensure all staff opinions, suggestions, view are subjected to their merit and accepted where applicable. Decision making process should be systematic, strategic and structured for easy implementation. Regular meetings should also be held to solicit the views of all employees to make them feel part of the organization.