Monitoring colleagues at work: profit-sharing, employee ownership, broad-based stock options and workplace performance in the United States

Kruse, Douglas, Blasi, Joseph and Freeman, Richard B. (2004) Monitoring colleagues at work: profit-sharing, employee ownership, broad-based stock options and workplace performance in the United States. CEPDP, 647. Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 0753017776

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Abstract

This study seeks to increase our understanding of worker reactions to shirking by analyzing two new questions on shirking from the 2002 General Social Science Survey (GSS). We developed the questions in order to illuminate the factors that enable some shared capitalist enterprises to overcome the free rider or 1/N dilemma. Our guiding principle is the notion that for profit-sharing, worker ownership, and broad-based stock options to produce economic benefits, workers must “buy into” shared arrangements and create a workplace culture that discourages shirking.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://cep.lse.ac.uk
Additional Information:	© 2004 the authors
Library of Congress subject classification:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Sets:	Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
Rights:	http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm
Identification Number:	647
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/19943/

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