Employee Ownership: A Field Study

Abstract

In a field study of employee ownership, three dimensions of psychological (i.e., experienced) ownership were examined in relation to the level of experienced common interest and organizational commitment. Worker integration was tested as an intervening variable in the relationship between ownership and the level of employee job satisfaction and alienation. Results suggest that psychologically experienced ownership may not directly give rise to variations in employee attitudes, but this relationship may operate through the degree to which ownership results in an integration of the worker into the organization.