GAINSHARING AND MUTUAL MONITORING - A COMBINED AGENCY-ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE INTERPRETATION

• 成果类型: Note
• 署名作者: WELBOURNE, TM; BALKIN, DB; GOMEZMEJIA, LR
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/256750
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 881-899
• 关键词: PROCEDURAL JUSTICE; THEORY PERSPECTIVE; performance; pay; satisfaction; firm; COMPENSATION; determinants; OWNERSHIP; fairness

摘要

This study examines the behavioral consequences of ''gainsharing'' using a theoretical framework that includes elements of agency and organizational justice theory. We propose that when gainsharing is used as a collective form of incentive alignment, mutual monitoring among employees is a direct function of procedural and distributive fairness. The hypothesis was supported in a quasi-experimental field study of 221 employees working for two firms, The implications of the study for future extensions of agency theory to intraorganizational phenomena are discussed.