Participation in Budgeting, Locus of Control and Organizational Effectiveness examines how giving people a say in budgeting interacts with personality and learning to influence performance.
The study spans both students and middle managers, offering practical insight into how participation can shape outcomes in real organizations.
This edition highlights how internal versus external control beliefs affect responses to participative budgeting. It discusses learning rates over time, how job satisfaction and attitudes relate to performance, and what these findings might mean for designing roles and budgets in companies.
- How participation interacts with personality to affect performance and learning.
- Differences between high and low participation conditions for internal and external control beliefs.
- Implications for budgeting processes, role design, and personnel decisions.
- Considerations on the external validity of experimental results in real-world settings.
Ideal for readers of management science, organizational behavior, and human resources who want evidence-based guidance on budgeting practices and team design.