The relationship between participative decision-making and employee perceptions of trust, psychological contract breach, and organization commitment in the information technology sector in Swaziland

Abstract

The intent of this research was to explore explicitly the relationship between participation in decision-making and the employee perceptions about trust, psychological contract breach and organisational commitment. While most of these constructs have received a lot of attention in literature, little research exists on how they are interrelated as far as organisational studies are concerned. Therefore the main focus of this research was to exp/ore these relationships. Participation in decision-making was hypothesized to have positive relationships with trust and organisational commitment, and a negative relationship with psychological contract breach. The research was conducted on a total of 50 information technology professionals. The results indicate there is no significant relationship between participation and trust as well as organisational commitment. However, there is a significant negative relationship between participative leadership and the perceived breach of the psychological contract at the organisational level.