Five Ways to Boost Retention
This article spells out five proven practices to help you keep your most talented employees.
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 Entrepreneur’s Guide to Equity Compensation
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Equity Compensation is a comprehensive overview of employee ownership practices and practicalities.
The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees
This study empirically investigates the value employees place on stock options using information from the option exercise behavior of individuals
Is Employee Ownership Counterproductive?
Turning workers into shareholders improves corporate performance, or so advocates of employee ownership maintain. Their logic is simple: workers with a stake in their company’s future are more likely to take a long-term view, which translates into higher productivity and other gains.
Equity: Why Employee Ownership is Good for Business
Today, more than 25 percent of American workers own stock in their employers. Now Corey Rosen, John Case, and Martin Staubus present convincing evidence that employee ownership can be much more than just a good benefit program.
Leader Values, the Structure of Employee Stock Ownership Plans, and Organizational Outcomes
What is the relationship between the personal philosophy (as it relates to the management of the firm) of leaders of employee-owned companies and the structure of their employee stock ownership plans?
Sportasia LTD.: A Community Company
Evident in the case are important themes such as the transformational leadership of its senior management, the effective use of human resource strategies to control organisational growth, and the adoption of values similar to Charles Handy’s ‘Citizen Corporation’.
‘New Economy’ High-Tech Jobs Look Much Like Old Economy Low-Wage Work
The “new economy” is another name for an old bag of tricks where promise and reality don’t match up. E-workers counting on valuable stock options, a revolutionized workplace, and premier wages and benefits have instead gotten mediocre wages, useless stock options, relentless production pressure, and maximum job insecurity.
Employee Ownership in Enterprises in Africa and Asia
This paper examines wider employee share ownership in developing and newly industrializing countries with particular emphasis on Africa and Asia. The first section reviews the available evidence on the extent of wider employee share ownership. The second identifies the key issues relating to the implementation of wider employee share ownership: the objectives for employee ownership, … Read More
Worker Capitalists? Giving Employees an Ownership Stake
This article analyzes the emergent role of employees as a key shareholder group. The authors discusses four major drivers of the trend: tax incentives, decreased vulnerability to takeover, human resources management, and employee motivation.
The New Math of Ownership
In order to solve high-tech’s employee retention problems, Bill Gross, the chairman and founder of Idealab, proposes a radical solution: give all workers a significant equity stake.
Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance: A Review of the Evidence
Employee ownership in U.S. companies has grown substantially in the past 20 years. This paper reviews and provides some meta-analyses on the accumulated evidence concerning the prevalence, causes, and effects of employee ownership, covering 25 studies of employee attitudes and behaviors, and 27 studies of productivity and profitability (with both cross-sectional and pre/post comparisons).
Open-Book Management: The Coming Business Revolution
Open-book management is not so much a technique as a way of thinking, a process that actively involves employees in the financial life of the company.
People Express Airlines: Rise and Decline
This case describes the innovative approach to organizing and managing employees by People Express and describes the company’s eventual demise.