دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی سرمایه گرایی به اشتراک گذاشته شده، سرمایه اجتماعی و پویایی داخل سازمان - امرالد 2018

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore employee participation in ownership and control in a modern corporation and its impacts on intra-organizational social capital and workplace dynamics. Design/methodology/approach – Using the National Bureau of Economic Research Shared Capitalism Survey, it explores the varieties of organizational governance and tests the effects of shared capitalist programs and policies via multivariate regression analyses. Findings – It presents empirical support for the main working hypothesis that employee participation in ownership and control enhances worker trust for the firm, which in turn promotes commitment to performance and innovation at workplace. Practical implications – The empirical findings here imply that scaling worker participation can enhance productivity potentials of a firm. Originality/value – Above all, this paper takes a look at shared capitalism and workplace participation in decision making through the lens of social capital.

Discussion

Overall, we have confirmed all our working hypotheses as in Figure 4. This paper finds empirical support for the main hypothesis that employee participation in ownership and control empowers workers and enhances organizational trust for the firm, which in turn promotes commitment to performance and innovation at workplace. Most importantly, it shows that shared capitalism and worker participation are effective corporate institutions and policies beyond individual nudges such as incentives and bonuses. It hints that workplaces are social spaces in which group- or firm-level programs shape and influence organizational dynamics. A firm is not a gathering of individuals as atomic agents but rather a space of people as social beings. For further research, we may explore complementarity between shared capitalism and employee participation in decision making ( Jones et al., 2017; Kato and Morishima, 2002). It is a promising research question to ask whether shared claims to ownership and decision making interact with each other to produce greater effects upon organizational trust, commitment and productivity at workplace. In addition, we may take a closer look at how labor participation policies and institutions actually play out in everyday life within a firm. To do so, an ethnographic fieldwork including participant observation and in-depth interviews will be necessary to explore such dynamics.