Participative Management and Job Satisfaction: A Case of Bangladesh

Sharmeen Akhter, Suman Prosad Saha, and Iftekhar Mahfuz

This paper investigates the relationship between participative management and job satisfaction in the private organizations of Bangladesh. Data was collected via structured questionnaire from 290 employees from several firms at different occupational level and analyzed to evaluate the strength of hypothesized relationship, if any, among the constructs, which include Manager's use of a participative management style, Participative strategic planning process and Supervisory communications as independent variables or predictors and Job satisfaction as the dependent variable. The results provide enough evidence to support the hypothesized relationship and useful information for firms in formulating strategies to enhance the participative management style for creating employees’ job satisfaction.