Participation in Decision Making and Employee Commitment among Nurses in Ghana

Abstract

This paper explored the effect that participation in decision-making types (consultative, delegative and representative) has on employee commitment types (affective, continuance and normative) among nurses. The research was a cross-sectional descriptive research design. Data were collected through the use of a self-administered questionnaire from 280 nurses in the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. Analysis was done using Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The study found that consultative, delegative and representative participation had a significant positive relationship with affective commitment. Consultative and representative participation were found to have an influence on continuance and normative commitments, whereas delegative participation failed to influence both continuance and normative commitments of the nurses. This study gives a broader understanding for stakeholders to be proactive about the types of participation in decision making to adopt in order to achieve the desired employee commitment type among nurses and other health workers