Organizational Democracy in the Private Sector: A Field Research

Hurriyet Bilge, Nicoleta Bărbuţă-Mişu, Deniz Zungun, Florina Oana Virlanuta and Huseyin Guven
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Hurriyet Bilge: Department of Business Administration, Manisa Celal Bayar University, 45140 Manisa, Turkey
Deniz Zungun: Department of Business Administration, Manisa Celal Bayar University, 45140 Manisa, Turkey
Florina Oana Virlanuta: Department of Business Administration, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 800008 Galati, Romania
Huseyin Guven: Department of Business Administration, Manisa Celal Bayar University, 45140 Manisa, Turkey

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: The process of organizational democracy involves a process of associating employees’ participation and satisfaction in business processes, increased innovation, increased stakeholder engagement and ultimately increased organizational performance. Organizations and the people that form the organization adapt democracy to achieve social and economic goals by making use of the blessings of democracy. In this way, they aim to reach their goals and to include all members of the organization in the process while achieving these goals, and to sustain the stability. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the democracy perceptions of blue and white collar employees in the private sector through organizational democracy scales, by using various variables and to contribute to the existing literature. The sample of the study constitutes 209 people, white and blue collar employees at various levels in medium and large scale enterprises in the Manisa Organized Industrial Zone in Turkey. As a result of the study, it is seen that married employees and employees who think that their expertise in the job is good have the power to criticize their businesses and exhibit participation. In addition, it has been concluded that employees that are high school graduates see management fairer in terms of salary than other graduates. Another finding in the study is about the size of the pre-work life centers of the workplace. Perceptions and attitudes of the people living in metropolitan and provincial center metros before work observed that more equality was observed in the workplaces than those living in the district centers.

Keywords: democracy; organizational democracy; factor analysis; structural equation modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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