Profit Sharing and Workplace Productivity: Does Teamwork Play a Role?

Arbeitspapier

The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and whether this relationship is affected by various contextual factors, particularly use of work teams. In so doing, we use both three and five-year panels. Overall, we find a significant link between adoption of a profit sharing program and subsequent productivity growth in both panels, but only among establishments that utilize employee work teams.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7869

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Compensation Packages; Payment Methods ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms; Employee Ownership
• Subject: profit sharing plans ; workplace productivity ; teamwork ; firm-worker linked survey ; Canada

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Long, Richard J. ; Fang, Tony
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/89909
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET