Employee Ownership Blog

Dallan Guzinski

The Ownership Culture Survey Networking Program is Launching in 2021

Research shows that the existence of an ESOP is not in itself sufficient for a company to attain the competitive and performance advantages associated with employee ownership. A company must also build an ownership culture—a workplace where employees think and act like owners. The NCEO's Ownership Culture Surveys are designed exclusively for employee ownership companies. The surveys measure how well employees understand their ESOP and ways the company can more effectively capture the benefits and competitive advantages of employee ownership.

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Dallan Guzinski

The Ownership Culture Survey Networking Program

Research shows that the existence of an ESOP is not in itself sufficient for a company to attain the competitive and performance advantages associated with employee ownership. A company must also build an ownership culture—a workplace where employees think and act like owners. The NCEO's Ownership Culture Surveys are designed exclusively for employee ownership companies. The surveys measure how well employees understand their ESOP and ways the company can more effectively capture the benefits and competitive advantages of employee ownership.

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Loren Rodgers

Using Employee Ownership to Recruit New Employees

Businesses across the country are struggling to find, hire, and retain the employees they need, so this finding from the General Social Survey (reported on in our blog) should be welcome news to everyone responsible for recruiting at an employee-owned company: “Democrat or Republican, female or male, black or white, union or non-union, a majority of respondents said they prefer to work for a company with employee share ownership.”

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Corey Rosen

Australian Legislative Committee Urges Consideration of Employee Ownership Trusts

Employee ownership in Australia is limited primarily to employee stock purchase plans and employee equity grant programs such as stock options, although some advisors have figured out ways to create something that looks somewhat like a U.S. ESOP. A new report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue titled Owning a Share of Your Work: Tax Treatment of Employee Share Schemes discusses the state of stock plans in the country.

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Corey Rosen

Conservative Party in Canada Endorses Employee Ownership Incentives

In its new election platform, the Conservative Party in Canada joins the ruling Liberal Party in pushing for major changes in Canadian law to create an employee ownership structure similar to ESOPs in the U.S. and employee ownership trusts in the UK. The Liberals had already included proposals to promote employee ownership in their proposed budget. The Conservatives endorsed providing capital gain deferrals for owners selling to employee ownership trusts as well as government support to help finance the sales.

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Timothy Garbinsky

Adapting to Changing Workplace Attitudes with High-Involvement Culture

It's no secret that workplace attitudes are changing. Many workers in all sectors and at all stages of their careers are learning that many parts of their jobs can be done from home. Others are beginning to feel there’s a disconnect between the value of their work and the amount of respect or compensation they receive. All of this points to somewhat of a cultural shift, not only in the nature of work itself, but in the way workers are treated.

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Corey Rosen

Employee-Owned Companies Dominate B Lab Best for the World Awards

Fifteen of the 19 winners in the medium- and large-company categories of B Lab’s Best For the World awards for workers are employee-owned (and almost all are NCEO members). B Lab provides certification for companies complying with its standards for meeting various social and environmental goals. The companies are Atomic Object, Butler/Till, Cooperative Home Case Associates, KeHE, King Arthur Baking, New Age Industries, Chroma Technology, Future State, Gardener's Supply, Global Prairie, Hallam-ICS, Ingage Partners, Namaste Solar, Revision Energy, and Tier1 Partners.

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