employee involvement & communication

Employee participation:
Employee participation is the process whereby employees are involved in decision making processes, rather than simply acting on orders. Employee participation is part of a process of empowerment in the workplace.

Employee involvement:
BusinessDictionary.com (2010) defined employee involvement as a regular participation of employees in deciding how their work is done, making suggestions for improvement, goal setting, planning, and monitoring of their performance.
Involvement is about management who have the desire to encourage employees to be committed to the organisational values and aims and objectives which are in place. Employee involvement includes a different range of category which individuals may undertake whilst working such as:
• Sharing information
• Consultation
• Financial participation
• Quality improvements
• Individuals
• Community

How can organisations involve employees in decision - making?
By working more closely with people, sometimes own knowledge is not idle to solve some solution therefore employee’s knowledge, talent, skills and cleverness can make complex situation, straightforward.

There should be no limitations on others, but rather they should be seen as true reservoirs of awareness and intelligence.

Always ask for every workers opinion before making any final judgement to any problem because it leads to success.


Many organisations are now using social networking sites as a means of involving their staff, both for existing staff and potential recruits. Go online and find examples of how this works. What sort of information is provided? Which social networks are being used?

Social networking is used to involve staff in all discussion because the internet itself is like give and take therefore using this tool to engage employee. As a manager or team leader, if most your workers are using a blackberry messenger. You can easily pin them the suggestion and wait on their reply in order to make the right decision. Communication is an important aspect of employee engagement. Good two-way communication can help to build the psychological contract, in which employees feel valued by their employer, and the employer values.