Gainsharing and organizational learning: An analysis of employee suggestions over time

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Arthur, JB; Aiman-Smith, L
• 署名单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.2307/3069413
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 737-754
• 关键词: SCANLON PLAN; PARTICIPATION; PRODUCTIVITY; involvement; QUALITY; CONSEQUENCES; unionization; COOPERATION; performance; improvement

摘要

We propose a model of gainsharing as an organizational learning system. Analyzing employee suggestions submitted over the first four years of a gainsharing plan at one plant, we found that although conventional explanations of how gainsharing works predicted changes in the volume of total suggestions, changes in their content were consistent with an organizational learning process. Suggestions indicating first-order learning were initially high but declined over time as a percentage of total suggestions, and suggestions congruent with second-order learning became a larger portion of the total suggestions over time.