Avaliação do impacto das participações no capital da empresa sobre o contrato psicológico: O caso da participação dos gestores, técnicos e trabalhadores no capital da Enacomo, Hortofrutícola e LAM

Abstract

Ten years have passed since the introduction of the participation of managers, technicians and workers in the capital of the National Trade Company SARL (Enacomo), as part of the restructuring of the state business sector, a process that was later replicated in the Mozambique Airlines SA (LAM), and in Hortofrutícola SARL. In the first two cases, the Managers, Technicians and Workers had the right to acquire 20% of the capital, and in the last one 100%. The need to measure the impact of the introduction of these participations in the attitude of the worker shareholder towards work and towards the company, is the raison d'être of this small work. Very specifically, it aimed to assess whether the employee shareholder had assumed duties and obligations beyond what his legal employment contract stipulated (by virtue of becoming the owner of the company) and whether he perceived that the company secured him rights and privileges beyond what was established in the terms and conditions of his legal contract - Psychological Contract. In the act of introducing these shareholdings, however, not enough attention was paid to the component of training the workers to take on their new duties and responsibilities with dedication. On the other hand, the workers do not feel the benefits of participation: the sharing of information, power and the wealth of the company. As a result, the levels of loyalty, trust, dedication, stability and certainty of the employee shareholder do not seem to have improved. If companies want to make equity participation a tool for worker involvement in the business and consequent company competitiveness, they will have to address the above issues. For now, there do not seem to be any major differences between an employee shareholder and a non-shareholder.

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