The desire for increased participation: The validation of a framework with two large New Zealand companies

The goal of the study was to validate a survey instrument which was designed to test a framework describing attitudes to participation. A postal questionnaire was used with a sample of employees of two large companies. The results indicated consistency between the survey instrument and the framework. The participative environment offered by each company, although different, was independent of job status. The degree of participation was related to job status and the participative environment. The overall desire for increased participation was relatively small and was moderated by the degree of actual participation and the participative environment.