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Does profit sharing enhance productivity: evidence from the retail food industry in Canada

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  • Mahmoud Yousef Askari
  • Ghaleb A. El Refae

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In this paper, we provide further support for using profit sharing to enhance productivity and profitability from the retail food industry in Canada. The overall gross profit percentage (GP%) of a retail store was used as a measure of productivity and profitability for the store. In addition, and as another measure of productivity, the study compared the performance of one of the most sensitive departments in a food retail store, and that is the GP% of the produce department. Results show that the overall actual GP% of the studied location has increased by 1.74% in the first quarter of using profit sharing, when compared with the previous quarter. Results also show an actual GP% increase of 1.12% for the profit sharing quarter when compared with the previous year that preceded the shift to profit sharing compensation system.

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  • Mahmoud Yousef Askari & Ghaleb A. El Refae, 2020. "Does profit sharing enhance productivity: evidence from the retail food industry in Canada," International Journal of Business Excellence, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 22(3), pages 336-351.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbexc:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:336-351
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