We've already touched on this topic when we talked about organizational justice and the need for employees to know and understand salary enhancement procedures. We also talked about it when we defined the raison d'être of teams, as well as the sense of purpose that each employee desires.
Sharing strategy meets the same requirements, the need to understand so as to be able to associate oneself with the company's project and ambitions.
This mode of stimulation through transparency largely corresponds to what John Case calls Open-Book Management: "the information received by employees should not only help them to carry out their tasks, it should help them to understand better how the company functions as a whole"1
Every company has its secrets, its hidden agendas and its unspoken ambitions. The aim of sharing strategy is not to open up all sensitive information to the competition, leaving the company vulnerable.
Taking advantage of this limited but sincere transparency increases the emotional bond between employees by building on the two-way trust that unites them.