Making an Impact: The SRC Culture
SRC employee-owners share how they impact the company’s bottom line – from idea sharing to cost savings. SRC Holdings is an open book employee owned company based in Springfield, Missouri.
The Role of Employee Shareholders in Corporate Governance
This French language doctoral thesis examines the role of employee shareholders in corporate governance, drawing on original interview research.
Chatsworth Products, Inc.
This PowerPoint presentation is a case study that is part of Class 4 from the Course: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation. The case study discusses Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI), a leading manufacturer of systems designed to organize, store and secure IT infrastructure equipment. This presentation and case study is part of the … Read More
Change The Game: Saving The American Dream By Closing The Gap Between The Haves And The Have-Nots
The goal of playing the Great Game of Business has always been to find a way to teach the have-nots how the haves make it. It’s about creating and distributing wealth equitably as a way to close those gaps in wealth that plague our society. It’s about changing the game. Change the Game is filled … Read More
This is What Employee Ownership Looks Like
In this video about North State Grocery, the 100% employee owned chain of grocery stores operating as Holiday Market and Sav-Mor-Foods in Northern California and Oregon, employees describe what employee ownership means to them.
Broad-Based Employee Stock Ownership: What Makes It Effective in the Management of Human Resources?
Research linking broad‐based employee stock ownership (BESO) with firm performance continues to receive considerable attention both in and outside the field of management. Despite the evidence being generally positive regarding the BESO–firm performance relationship, there has been a relative dearth of research providing insights into the circumstances surrounding the effectiveness of BESO. With this research … Read More
Creating a High-Performing Workplace (MGT 426)
In the 20th century, access to capital was the principal source of economic advantage. The business organizations that dominated the developed economies were those that excelled at acquiring large amounts of capital and deploying it productively to produce the steel, concrete, fuel, transportation and other physical materials that drove economic growth in that period. My … Read More
Mud Bay’s Good Jobs Journey
This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washington, implemented a good jobs strategy by offering better wages and benefits and seeking to recoup the costs by increasing sales growth and lowering other expenses.
Shareholder Concerns with Equity Compensation – Concept of Fairness
This PowerPoint presentation is Class 5 from the Course: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation. The session explores shareholders concerns regarding equity, building a culture of ownership, and effective leadership in an engaged company. This presentation is part of the Teaching Module: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation.
Guest Interview: Topics in Corporate Governance
This PowerPoint presentation is Class 4 from the Course: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation. The session explores two employee-owned business, ATA Engineering, Inc. and Chatsworth Products, Inc. Case Study #1: ATA Engineering, Inc. Case Study #2: Chatsworth Products, Inc. This presentation is part of the Teaching Module: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques … Read More
Legal Implications and Future Trends
This PowerPoint presentation is Class 3 from the Course: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation. The session explores the legal implications of equity compensation covering tax law and labor considerations; as well as future trends. This presentation is part of the Teaching Module: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation.
Overview of Techniques – Non-Qualified Plans and Synthetic Equity
This PowerPoint presentation is Class 2 from the Course: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation. The session explores what non-qualified plans are covering legal factors, basic types, direct and indirect ownership tools, stock options and settlement choices. The session also explores synthetic equity. This presentation is part of the Teaching Module: Topics in … Read More
Equity as a Currency of Business – Qualified Plans
This PowerPoint presentation is Class 1 from the Course: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation. The session explores the notion of equity as a currency of business; and explores the most “tax favored” techniques, qualified plans. This presentation is part of the Teaching Module: Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation.
Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation (Teaching Module)
This Teaching Module, designed by Anthony Mathews, covers the techniques used in equity compensation. The module consists of the course syllabus, five class sessions, two case studies and an Equity Compensation Cheat Sheet. Topics include qualified and non-qualified plans, legal implications, shareholders concerns regarding equity, building a culture of ownership, and effective leadership in an … Read More
Fostering Ownership Attitudes: Creative Equity Compensation Plans for Employees
In a chart format, offers summaries of common equity compensation instruments, categorized with type of plan, benefits, tax and accounting treatment, and drawbacks. Also provides guidance on implementing equity compensation.
Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation (MGT 429)
Course Description: Techniques of Equity Compensation is a skills-based 2 unit elective course designed to provide students a comprehensive understanding of equity as a compensation vehicle.
Shared Core Values of High Performing Employee-Owned Enterprises
Values represent guidelines for behavior and are important determinants of organizational performance. In addition, employee-owned enterprises (EOEs) tend to outperform traditional organizations. Thus, identifying the core values that underlie successful EOEs should provide insights for improved firm performance. Based on an exploratory comparative analysis of eight high-performing, employee-owned companies, a common set of values that … Read More
Introduction to Shared Entrepreneurship
Haier Group and MLab organized the 1st International Rendanheyi Model Forum in Qingdao, China, in 2017, to explore the transformation of business models in the current era. Dr. Frank Shipper, the author of numerous case studies on employee owned companies and editor of the book Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership, gave this … Read More
Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participative Management
We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real effort. To identify the causal effect of participation on effort, workers are exogenously assigned to one of the two treatments: one in which the manager … Read More
Governance and Decision Making at Carris Reels
Synopsis Carris Reels, a reel-manufacturing company headquartered in Vermont, had long-standing goals of being employee owned and governed. They also had a strong organizational (ownership) culture. The Corporate Steering Committee (CSC), a committee composed of representatives from management and non-management employees, and the board of directors had a decision to make about adding two new … Read More
The Neuroscience of Trust: Management Behaviors that Foster Employee Engagement
In this article, Zak reviews his research and that of others to link trust, the production of oxytocin in the brain, and performance. Furthermore, he identifies eight managerial behaviors that lead to building a culture of trust. By doing so the organization lowers stress sick days, and burnout; and increases productivity, engagement, and collaboration among … Read More
How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions?: Employee Ownership, Employment Stability, and Firm Survival in the United States: 1999-2011
Employee ownership is a situation in which employees have an ownership stake in the firm where they work, through holdings of firm stock. It is a channel through which employees share in the profits of the firm and can vote on important firm decisions and otherwise have increased participation in workplace decisions.
Special Section Democracy 2.0
This special section of The Sociological Quarterly, edited by Joyce Rothschild includes the following articles: The Logic of a Co-Operative Economy and Democracy 2.0: Recovering the Possibilities for Autonomy, Creativity, Solidarity and Common Purpose by Joyce Rothschild When Freedom is Not an Endless Meeting: A New Look at Efficiency in Consensus-Based Decision-Making by Darcy K. Leach “Plan … Read More
J. Robert Beyster Papers: A Legacy of Employee-Owners’ Journey for Innovation
In December, my family finalized a very personal, and we hope impactful, gift titled, J.R. Beyster Papers, to UCSD Library’s Special Collections. After about one year of pre-processing, the collection includes more than 200 boxes of documents covering more than 50 years of hundreds of advanced scientific innovations, small- to billion-dollar business experiments, and discontinued to transformational government program development.
Client Profile: Gems N’ Loans
In 1993, Mack Hembree, a successful real estate businessman, was invited to invest in opening a business that he had some commonly held reservations about. The business was a pawn shop… By fostering and aligning employee satisfaction, collaboration, and commitment at every level, Mack has developed an ownership culture that differentiates Gems N’ Loans from its peers and has been instrumental in the company’s success.