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Given that so much has been written about how to appropriately implement and manage Scanlon-type gainsharing plans, why don’t managers just design them right, implement them appropriately, and support them so they will succeed?  Chapter 2 provides several answers based on the political behaviors of workplace interest groups.  For the most part, managers restrain employee involvement in decision making and employee wages, whereas nonmanagement employees restrain information about the production process and production output.  Each interest group wants what the other interest group restrains.

Gainsharing and Power, Denis Collins, page 203