The purpose of this article is to explore these two research gaps and to focus on
individual employees’ perceptions and attitudes towards SBP. Specifically, we consider
that justice and trust are a particularly useful duo of lenses through which to examine
the motivation of workers to participate (or not) in SBP. To that end, we draw on two
case studies and an analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with several
categories of employees (human resource (HR) managers, front-line managers and
employees).Weinterviewed 40 employees in two French companies (one manufacturing
company and one retail company). They were questioned about their experience of
SBPs. Various topics were addressed, including the difficulties of implementing SBPs,
the way in which evaluations are carried out, the role of front-line managers in these
evaluations and questions of fairness and involvement.