Research On The Influence Of Corporate Culture Over Employee Participation

Currently, labor relations are experiencing constant change and issues related are becoming increasingly conspicuous. Solution to these problems requires the employees to be more involved in the management of an enterprise. Therefore, the participation of the employees turns into a heated topic among the theorists and the managements. With the method of empirical research, this study has focused on the effect that corporate culture can have on employee participation, and a suggestion is given that the construction of a good corporate culture can effectively encourage employee participation.With a review of the existing data and researches, this study is based on a survey and a statistical analysis of the data from questionnaire conducted among 240 employees in 9 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Changsha and Nanchang. Conclusions are as following: First, the employee's participation is generally of the average level, and their participation in the decision-making and parallel level is higher than in the job involvement. Second, the different characteristics of individual employees will affect their participation, and a negative correlation is demonstrated between the age and paralleling participation and job involvement, and more male participation in decision-making than female. Third, the three elements involved in participation, namely authority, team-orientation and capacity development, can obviously affect the overall participation, among which the team orientation affects the most; while, the sub-division of consent in consistency has an obvious effect on the overall participation ; the strategic direction of mission and the envisioned future also play a important role in employee's participation, the envisioned future especially is highly connected with decision-making participation. Fourth, adaptability to corporate culture doesn't notably affect employee participation.After the corporate culture analyzed and the assumption evidenced by the empirical research, this thesis is to put forward a few suggestions on how to enhance employee participation: firstly, break the traditional hierarchy system and establish team work unit, and the employees are endowed with full autonomy and development programs formulated for them. What's more, a stable business model and affair-handling culture be formed and a highly consistent behavior rule and value judgment should be promoted. In addition, the sense of mission for company is to be strengthened. This can be accomplished by building long-term goal, giving a clear strategic direction, and impart the envisioned future of the company to the employees and reach a concord among them. With all these, the employee participation will be fully aroused.