How Well Is Employee Ownership Working?
With ESOPs performing so well more American managers should consider adopting this approach.
With ESOPs performing so well more American managers should consider adopting this approach.
Results of a test of three alternative models of the conditions necessary for employee ownership to positively influence employee attitudes are reported.
Why do the rich get richer and the poor stay poor? How can we privatize publicly owned capital facilities so that employees and users own the stock? How can unions win ‘more’ for their members without rendering American employees uncompetitive? What steps can the government take to make every American economically independent? ‘Democracy and Economic Power’ aims to answer these questions and many more like them.
Douglas Kruse’s carefully executed study of two companies owned by the workers through Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), examines the hopes and anxieties that have been articulated by many of the participants in one of America’s fastest growing types of work experiments.