SHARED INFLUENCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: A META-ANALYSIS OF SITUATIONAL VARIABLES EXPECTED TO MODERATE PARTICIPATION-OUTCOME RELATIONSHIPS.

1 September 1987

journal article
review article
Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal

Vol. 30 (3) , 524-541
https://doi.org/10.2307/256012

Abstract

This study is a meta-analysis of the effects of four situational moderators on relationships between participation and five outcomes. Results based on 118 correlation coefficients indicate that, with the influence of percept-percept research procedures controlled, group size, task interdependence, task complexity, and performance standards exert a few statistically significant moderating effects, and that participation typically has only modest influence on task performance, decision performance, motivation, satisfaction, and acceptance. Combined with evidence from another recent meta-analysis by Miller and Monge, the results suggest that methodological artifacts explain many of the noteworthy positive findings published in research on relationships between participation and its outcomes.

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