2012 Innovations in Employee Ownership Award
Driven by engaged, entrepreneurial employees, employee-owned companies often emerge as industry leaders, pioneering best practices in a range of areas. The
Innovations in Employee Ownership Award seeks to recognize the innovative practices that result from having an engaged workforce of employee-owners, as well as ideas that tie stock to improved company culture or performance. By sharing these ideas with the employee-ownership community, this award strives to encourage employee-owned companies to continue to innovate.
Apply or nominate a company today!
You can fill out a
PDF version of the 2012 Innovations Award application, or
complete the survey online.
- Eligibility: Any company with a stock or stock-based program is eligible (from ESOPs to stock appreciation rights). Companies may apply directly or be nominated by third parties. In the case of a third party nomination, the company nominated will be contacted and asked to fill out an application.
- Criteria: An Award Committee determines the winning companies using a number of factors including the positive impact the innovation has on the company, its employees, the industry, the employee-ownership community, as well as the public perception of employee ownership.
- Award and Recognition: Winning companies will be presented with the Innovations in Employee Ownership Award at the 2012 NCEO/Beyster Institute annual conference, including one complimentary conference registration. In addition, winners will receive extensive recognition from the NCEO and Beyster Institute in a variety of formats including a dedicated webpage, articles, a Webinar, and more. Submitted innovations of companies who do not receive the award may also be publicized.
- Timeline: Applications for the 2012 Innovations Award will be accepted until February 10, 2012. The winners will be notified by March 4, 2012.
For a list of past winners,
click here.
About the Innovations Award
The Innovations Award has been sponsored by TEOCO Corporation since 2006. TEOCO, an acronym for "The Employee-Owned Company," is based in Fairfax, VA: see
www.teoco.com. The award is administered jointly by the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) and the Beyster Institute (BI) at the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management.
