Presenting a Model and Investigating the Factors Affecting Employee Participation in Isfahan Governorate: a Fuzzy Delphi Approach

To achieve their goals, organizations need to consider several factors, one of the most important of which is organizational participation. Isfahan Governorate, in line with its organizational mission, tries to provide quality services with a central program through encouraging increased participation of employees and taking advantage of their opinions and suggestions. Hence, the current research is aimed to present a model for increasing employee participation in Isfahan Governorate. To this end, 54 influencing factors regarding employee participation were extracted through the review of research literature. The intended research community consisted of all the employees and managers of Isfahan Governorate, and 21 senior managers of the organization who were recruited through convenience samling and their opinions were analyzed using the fuzzy Delphi method. The final factors were codyfied in 7 dimensions of leadership, job satisfaction, performance evaluation, clear goal setting and policy making, organizational culture, human resource measures and organizational structure. The conceptual model and the relationship of the factors were presented using the DEMATEL method. The conceptual model with the addition of employee participation as a dependent variable was quantitatively investigated using the structural equation modeling method. The results revealed that there is a positive significant relationship between leadership and human resources measures; leadership and organizational structure; organizational structure, goal-setting and policy-making; human resources measures and organizational culture; organizational culture and performance evaluation; goal-setting and policy-making component and performance evaluation; performance evaluation component and job satisfaction; and job satisfaction and employee participation.