Abstract:
Purpose:The paper aims to clarify the relationship between employee participation and performance of
organizations, and tries to demonstrate the mediator role of employee attitude in this relationship.
Design/Methodology/approach: The proposed model was analyzed with a sample of 378 workers in 20 state owned
corporations in kenya.
Findings:Three participation schemes were found to influence significantly the performance of state corporations in
Kenya.These were: personalized empowerment schemes, workteams,and representative schemes.Financial
participation schemes however had no significant influence on performance of state corporations.
Employee attitude had a strong mediating effect on financial and indirect participation schemes. Employee attitude
had moderate mediating effect on use of workteams and performance relationship. However, employee attitude does
not have any significant mediating effect on the relationship between use of personalized empowerment schemes
and performance of state corporations in Kenya.
