People working in rented offices in Cardiff may find sharing profits among staff causes conflicts between employee relationships.
This is according to research carried out by Lancaster University Management School, which found that interaction between supervisors and workers may change.
The study revealed that while profit sharing seemed to have little or no influence on overall job satisfaction, it did affect how staff felt towards their boss.
"It may increase cooperation and helping effort," it was noted.
However, the report commented that "at the same time it can increase direct monitoring and pressure by the supervisor and mutual monitoring and peer pressure from other workers".
As a result, staff may be less inclined to be satisfied by their relationship with their line managers.
One of the lead authors on the paper was John Heywood, who has taken part in a number of different studies looking at how performance and pay are linked.
