Employee involvement, work engagement and skill development

Gallie, Duncan; Zhou, Ying

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Published: 6 July 2020

Employee involvement, work engagement and skill development

Duncan Gallie,

Ying Zhou

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Trust Skills and training Participation at work

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WPEF19061

6 July 2020

How does employee involvement in decision-making benefit organisations?

How do organisations get the best out of their employees? Research on human resource management has found that a key practice is employee involvement: enabling employees to make decisions on their own work and to contribute to organisational decision-making. A high degree of employee involvement creates work environments that are highly motivational and that emphasise skill development. And this is the type of work environment that organisations need to meet the demands for innovation and adaptability to technological change in a knowledge-driven economy. This policy brief examines the empirical evidence that workplaces where employee involvement is high are more successful in developing the capacity for high performance in workers than workplaces with lower levels of involvement. It examines the influence of work organisation on two factors contributing to performance: work engagement and skill development.

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