Employee share ownership, psychological ownership, and work attitudes and behaviours: A phenomenological analysis

Employee Share Ownership: a Review of the Literature

Research Report EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Psychological ownership and feelings of possession: three field studies predicting employee attitudes and organizational citizenship behavior

An increasing number of scholars and practitioners have emphasized the importance of ‘feelings of ownership’ for the organization (even when employees are not legal owners). In this exploratory study, we examine the relationships of psychological ownership with work attitudes and work behaviors. We start by developing hypotheses based on the psychology of possession and psychological ownership ...

Patterns of Employee Participation and Industrial Democracy in Uk Employee Share Ownership Plans

This paper examines the institutional characteristics of UK Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and considers the extent to which ESOPs extend employee participation and industrial democracy. It is suggested that ESOPs in themselves do not extend industrial democracy. Instead patterns of employee participation are substantially determined by the goals of those primarily responsible for estab...

Psychological Ownership: Theoretical Extensions, Measurement, and Relation to Work Outcomes

Viewing psychological ownership as a positive resource for impacting human performance in organizations, the present study investigated the components of an expanded view of psychological ownership. Confirmatory factor analyses on a proposed measure of psychological ownership provided support for a positively-oriented, ‘‘promotion-focused’’ aspect of psychological ownership comprised of four di...