Organizational Involvement and Employees’ Consumption of New Work Practices in State-owned Enterprises [Elektronisk resurs] The Ghanaian Case

• The existence of a favourable organizational involvement, persistence and adaptability in transforming a state enterprise will lead to positive employees’ consumption of new work practices. This observation was made from a study that explored the challenges faced by the management of a Ghanaian state enterprise in managing conflicts and disturbances associated with its attempt to implement new work practices to enhance its capabilities of operating as a commercial entity. The purpose was to understand the extent to which organizational involvement, consistency and adaptability influences employees’ consumption of new work practices in transforming the organization’s organizational activity system. Using self-administered questionnaires, data was collected from one hundred and eighty (180) employees and analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that constraints in organizational involvement and adaptability prevented the positive consumption of new work practices by employees in the organization. It is also found that the organization’s employees failed to consume the new practices being implemented, because they perceived the process as non-involving, and as such, did not encourage the development of employee capability, empowerment, and teamwork. The study concluded that the failure of the organization’s management to create opportunities for organizational learning constrained its ability to get employees consume the new work practices, which situation could have facilitated the organization’s capabilities of operating as a commercial entity. 

Ämnesord

Engineering and Technology  (hsv)

Mechanical Engineering  (hsv)

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics  (hsv)

Teknik och teknologier  (hsv)

Maskinteknik  (hsv)

Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi  (hsv)

Arbetsvetenskap  (ltu)

Human Work Science  (ltu)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

work practice consumption

state-owned enterprise

Ghana

Organizational transformation

new work practices

organizational involvement

Social sciences - Psychology

Business / Economics - Business studies

Social sciences - Sociology

Socialvetenskap - Psykologi

Ekonomi - Företagsekonomi

Socialvetenskap - Sociologi