ESOPs in Indiana: State Emphasizing Employee Ownership Model
Staff members at Vasey Commercial Heating & Air Conditioning in Zionsville are company owners as part of an employee stock ownership plan.
Broad-Based Employee Incentive Arrangements
This article provides descriptions of various broad-based employee incentive arrangements.
Who Has a Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, and Human Resources Policies
This paper investigates the relationship of ‘shared capitalist’ compensation systems—profit/gain sharing, employee ownership, and stock options—to the culture for innovation and employees’ ability and willingness to engage in innovative activity.
The Fabric of Creativity
At W.L. Gore, innovation is more than skin deep: The culture is as imaginative as the products.
Employee Ownership Culture Building: Process and Success Measures
This presentation outlines ways to measure success in an employee owned company, how to achieve positive results, and learn from the ‘best companies to work for.’
Who Runs an ESOP Company?
This presentation discusses the governance structure of employee-owned companies, including trustees, fiduciaries, administrators and plan participants…
Understanding Motivation: How Managers Can Contribute to the Success of the Organization
This Powerpoint presentation provides an introduction to the topic of motivation in the workplace and discusses ways in which managers can encourage better performance by contributing to employee motivation.
Unlocking the Power of Ownership
Company owners and managers often wonder why their employees don’t feel the same dedication to the job that they do.
Tax-Advantaged Employee Share Schemes: Analysis of Productivity Effects
Oxera was commissioned by HM Revenue & Customs (formerly the Inland Revenue) to examine the impact of tax-advantaged share schemes on UK company performance (whereby companies reward their employees by granting them shares, or share options, as part of their remuneration package).
The Lure of ESOPs
This year’s survey of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies shows that PROFIT 100 leaders consider employee share-ownership plans (ESOPs) part of the solution to help attract, motivate and retain top talent.
Beyster: SAIC Solution
Bob Beyster, the founder of Science Applications International Corporation, recalls the early days of this Fortune 300 company and recounts highlights from his new book, ‘The SAIC Solution.’
ESOP Termination: Phase 1
This report describes the results of the first phase of a research project on the reasons companies terminate employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). It summarizes interviews with company leaders at former ESOP companies and suggests directions for the quantitative research planned for phase 2 of this project.
The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company
Dr. Beyster tells the story of SAIC, and offers valuable lessons to entrepreneurs and managers on how to build a company in which loyalty to values goes hand in hand with success.
An Overview of Existing Data on Employee Share Ownership in Australia
This paper provides an overview of existing data on employee share ownership (ESO) in Australia. It is concerned with broad-based employee share ownership plans.
Effects of ESOP Adoption and Employee Ownership: Thirty Years of Research and Experience
In the mid-1970s employee ownership was a fringe phenomenon in the US. Today more than one in six US private sector employees now own shares in their company, and more than one in 12 US private sector employees now participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
Hy-Vee’s Winning Ways
Here’s why Hy-Vee is successful as a chain and as a marketer of its private brands: Location, Ownership, Organization, Brands, Promotion and Customer Focus.
Employee Financial Participation in the New Member States
This report looks at the current situation in relation to employee financial participation (EFP) and its recent developments in the new Member States (NMS) of the EU: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
A Positive Movement Forward: Carris Companies Employee-Governance
This chapter presents William (Bill) H. Carris’s distinctive organizational design for a positive and practical model of 100% employee-governance in the movement toward 100% employee-ownership of the Carris Companies, a manufacturer of wood, plastic, and metal reels in six United States locations and one in Mexico…
ESOPs and Earnings Management: An Empirical Note
This study seeks to ascertain the impact of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) on earnings management.
Broad-Based Employee Stock Options Grants and IPO Firms
CFOs may wonder about the best ways to keep stock-owning employees committed to the company after an IPO. Research by corporate finance professors Peter Roosenboom and Tjalling van der Groot shows a decrease in insiders’ stock ownership from 52.1% before the IPO to 34% afterward, an indication of the powerful financial lure a post-IPO stock sale presents.
Unions and Employee Ownership: A Road to Economic Democracy?
In the relationship between unions and employee share ownership, neither threatened the other, and their combination led to benefits for employees, particularly where unionized employees were majority owners.
Employee Share Ownership Plans: Evaluating the Role of Tax and Other Factors Using Two Case Studies
This study explores, through case studies of ESO plans at two Australian companies, three key issues relevant to the implementation of ESO plans and the policy and regulation applicable to ESO plans.
Ohio’s Oldest ESOP: Alloy Engineering’s Success Story
Extending ownership to all employees, involving all in managing the business and tying the compensation to profits brought a renaissance to Alloy Engineering twenty years ago.
These Workers Act like Owners (Because They Are)
Unlike so many other chief executives, Cecil Ursprung will never be accused of losing sight of his shareholders. He sees them every day—in the parking lot, in the hallways, even on the factory floor.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Equity Compensation
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Equity Compensation is a comprehensive overview of employee ownership practices and practicalities.