It brings more benefits to the organization because it promotes unity, maintains the correct flow of communication, improves creativity and innovation. When an employee has a say in the company, there is a sense of empowerment and job satisfaction is more likely to increase. This, in turn, reduces employee retention and increases overall productivity. Transparency also increases trust between employer and employee; it brings harmony to the workplace as people feel less threatened by the secret and unknown variable. In my experience, few organizations encourage employee participation, particularly in decision-making at board level. A big part of the reason is that most companies still follow hierarchy and authoritarian management style. Including lower-level employees in the decision-making process can be seen as taking power away from the top. Even many private companies are reluctant to follow the concept of transparency for fear of competition. Knowing that the US workforce is changing, the employee is no longer loyal and remains stuck in the same job. A restriction is placed on company data, to which only authorized employees can have access
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