“…These results were consistent with findings from existing empirical literature (Black & Gregersen, 1997;Schuler, 1980;Scott-Ladd et al, 2006), which have suggested that when employees can engage in higher levels of PDM, their job satisfaction would also be likely to increase. From a theoretical perspective, encouraging PDM is provided under the affective models of participation, whereby facilitating employee engagement in job-related decisions will lead to the attainment of their higher-order needs (Maslow, 1943), which will ultimately promote their job satisfaction (Vroom, 1964).…”