Front Cover; Sharing in the Company: Determinants, Processes and Outcomes of Employee Participation; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Sharing in the Company: Introduction to the Volume; Future Research Directions; Employee Ownership and High-Performance Work Systems in Context; Introduction; The Contextual Model of HRM Systems; High-Performance Work Systems; Ownership High-Performing Work Systems; Personal Fit and Effectiveness of the System; Gift Exchange, Reciprocity, and Psychological Ownership; Empirical Proof, Summary, and Future Research; Notes; References.

Which Companies Adopt Sharing Arrangements and Why?Introduction; Concepts and Relationships; Relationship with Individual Incentives; Investment in Training; Employee Participation and Representation; Peer Monitoring; Human Resource Management Practices; Country Differences; Why are Managers/Owners Motivated to Adopt Financial Participation?; A Test of Antecedents: Data and Methods; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgment; References; Appendix: Independent Variables; Who Participates in Share Plans and Why?; Introduction; Background; Agency, Investments, and Distribution; Employee Choices.

Distribution of BenefitsA Test of Relationships: Data and Methods; Data and Method of the First Study; Measures; Results of the First Study; Second Study; Sample and Data Collection; Measures; Psychological Ownership; Employee Ownership; High-Performance Work System; Attitudes toward Employee Ownership; ESO Knowledgeability; Results of the Second Study; Conclusion and Discussion; References; Appendix A: Descriptive Statistics of the Determinants of Employees' Financial Participation.

Appendix B: Scale Coefficients and Statistics for Control, Commitment, Involvement, Leadership Style Supervisor, and Psychological Well-BeingAppendix C: Scale Statistics for HPWS, ESO KNOWLEDGEABILITY, Attitude ESO, and Psychological Ownership; How Has Employee Share Ownership Evolved in the Global Context?; Introduction; Broad-Based Share Schemes; Concepts and Relationships; Human Resource Management Practices Transfer; Human Resource Management Strategies; Industrial Relations and the Adoption of Broad-based Share Schemes; Country and the Moderating Role of Market Economy.

Institutional Profiles and National Financial Participation FrameworksState Orientation, Industrial Relations and the Development of Financial Participation in France; Voluntarist Employment Relations and the Development of ESO in the United Kingdom; Social Partnership and Dialogue Shaping Financial Participation in Germany; The Polder Model and the Development of Financial Participation in the Netherlands; Australian Employment Relations and Financial Participation: Again an Anglo-Saxon Model?