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Employee ownership and affective organizational commitment: employees' perceptions of fairness and their preference for company shares over cash

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Interest in profit-sharing and employee ownership is growing among both practitioners and researchers. This study examines the relationship between the preferences and perceptions of employees regarding an ongoing share ownership plan on the one hand, and the employees' affective organizational commitment on the other. After controlling for various personal and work-environment characteristics and for size of the financial contribution it was found that preference for ownership and the perceived fairness of the employee ownership plan were significant predictors of affective commitment. These findings support the notion that employee ownership may have intrinsic motivating effects on employees by way of a mediating mechanism, whereby the effects of ownership on organizational commitment depend on how employees evaluate and perceive formal ownership plans.

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  • Kuvaas, Bård, 2003. "Employee ownership and affective organizational commitment: employees' perceptions of fairness and their preference for company shares over cash," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 19(2), pages 193-212, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:19:y:2003:i:2:p:193-212
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    1. Dalenda Ben Ahmed, 2020. "Behavioral effects of employee stock ownership: French case," Asian Journal of Empirical Research, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 10(2), pages 53-64, February.

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