Using profit sharing to enhance employee attitudes: A longitudinal examination of the effects on trust and commitment
基于141名工程员工的纵向数据，研究员工对利润分享的看法（个人贡献能力和组织互惠）如何影响组织承诺和对管理层的信任，发现有利看法提升承诺，组织互惠预测信任。
Abstract The ability of profit sharing to increase organizational performance via positive changes in employee attitudes has yielded mixed results. Drawing on principal agent, expectancy, and organizational justice theories, we assess how perceptions of profit sharing (capacity for individual contribution and organizational reciprocity) alter organizational commitment and trust in management using longitudinal data provided by 141 engineering employees. Favorable perceptions of profit sharing served to increase organizational commitment while only organizational reciprocity predicted trust in management. The relationship between organizational reciprocity and commitment was partially mediated by trust in management. Implications for the design of profit sharing initiatives are noted. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.