This study analyzes whether employee trust in management results in mutual gains for employers and employees in the Japanese automobile industry. The results suggest that employees’ productivity-enhancing efforts and sense of job security are both positively related to their trust in management. The findings clearly support the mutual gains hypothesis. The results also indicate that in fostering employee trust, management plays a supportive role in enabling unions to verify its claims by disclosing high-quality information, whereas unions play an important role in mitigating information asymmetry.

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日本企业中员工对管理层的信任和共同收益假设

这项研究分析了员工对管理的信任是否会为日本汽车行业的雇主和雇员带来共同利益。结果表明，员工的提高生产力的工作和工作安全感与他们对管理的信任度正相关。这些发现清楚地支持了共同收益假说。结果还表明，在增强员工信任度方面，管理层在使工会能够通过披露高质量信息来验证其要求方面起到支持作用，而工会在减轻信息不对称方面起着重要作用。