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The discrepancy between measures of preferred and actual participation in decision making was used as a measure of ecological dissonance for an organization and then used to assess its relationship to job satisfaction, job involvement, job alienation, and job formalization. Questionnaires were administered to 143 faculty and staff members of Mississippi State University. Correlational analyses indicated mild relationships between the measures of ecological dissonance and job satisfaction, job involvement, job alienation, and job formalization, thus providing support for ecological dissonance theory (see Miller, Topping, & Wells-Parker, 1989). It was concluded that ecological dissonance in participation in decision making was a predictor of workers’ job satisfaction, job involvement, job alienation, and job formalization.
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Miller, D.I., Ismail, S., Giesen, J.M. et al. Ecological dissonance in decision-making participation systems as a predictor of job satisfaction, involvement, alienation, and formalization. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31, 146–148 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334165
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