Perceived effectiveness of democratic management, job performance, and citizenship behavior: evidence from a large Chinese state-owned petrochemical company

Democratic management, a unique union-based form of employee participation in China, is understudied in the employee participation literature. The paper investigates the associations between employee’s perceived democratic management effectiveness, employee job performance and organization citizenship behavior (OCB), using 988 matching surveys of both workers and their supervisors in a state-owned petrochemical firm in Central Region of China. We find that our measure of employee’s perceived democratic management effectiveness is positively associated with employee’s job performance and organization citizenship behavior (OCB). However, the association between perceived democratic management effectiveness and employee performance is negative if the employee is dispatch worker. Our interpretation of the findings suggests that employee’s perception of democratic management effectiveness is a source of employee performance.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Fuxi Wan