NCEO Survey Resources

Free Articles and Survey Materials

The following articles and survey materials are provided at no charge. They are in PDF format and require Acrobat Reader, which you probably already have installed. Several of these materials were created by Ownership Associates, the consulting firm that developed most of the survey resources now being offered by the NCEO. We will continue to adapt survey-related materials from Ownership Associates and to make many of them available at no charge here.

• OCS Technical Note (This note covers survey design issues, a brief history of NCEO survey resources from Ownership Associates, and item validity/reliability testing.)
• Trust and Ownership (Where does trust come from? How is trust building different in employee-ownership companies? Are there different types of trust?)
• Participation: Decision Making and Employee Ownership (Research suggests that a degree of employee participation in decisions is part of making employee ownership work. This article explore the meaning of "participation" and how it works in practice.)
• Ownership Cynics (Even the best companies have some cynical employees. Where does cynicism come from? What are its effects? What does research suggest companies can do about it?)
• Ownership and Motivation (Ownership means different things to different people. This article discusses some of the most common meanings, their impact on the company, and management implications of different organizational cultures.)
• Nothing Measured, Nothing Gained (This article discusses major findings from the survey resources, such as the level to which people feel like owners and the role of ESOP/plan understanding.)
• Getting Started (Our introduction to the surveys and the survey process)

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