TOPIC: EFFECTS OF EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION

Employee Involvement has immense benefits that can be experienced once incorporated and adopted in an organization .In the dynamic business environment it is thus imperative for managers to engage and involve employees in order to effectively steer through challenges as well as gain a competitive edge. Employees are the engine that drives productivity and results. They thus play an important role in strategic management implementation. Employee involvement taps into the employees’ abilities to enhance the processes in a way that traditional top-down management cannot (Riordan, Vandenberg, & Richardson, 2005). With companies answering to an increasing number of stakeholder’s customers, suppliers, shareholders, employees demand is for more than just financial performance. Inorder for managers to plan and smoothly implement strategies it is imperative to ensure employees are highly motivated, committed and empowered in order to overachieve intended targets. A participatory managed work environment provides ongoing training, skills development, and professional enrichment and mentoring to employees at all levels. This in turn ensures smooth implementation of organisation strategies since the environment is receptive This seminar paper is aimed at establishing the effects of employee involvement on strategic management implementation in an organisation. It also looks at the various aspects of employee involvement and their effects in strategic management implementation in organizations.