This study examined the effect of locus of control on perceptions of participative decision-making. A field study, involving a variety of systems used by 9 manufacturers, 5 insurance companies, 2 banks, 1 retailer, and 1 government agency, indicates that internality of control beliefs increased the agreement of 87 subjects' ratings of their participative decision-making with those of an independent rater. This suggests that people with an internal locus of control more accurately perceive their participation than those with an external locus of control.
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