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Employees Matter
Author: Broughton, Anne Claire
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: SJF Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Increasing numbers of businesses view their employees not as a mere cost but as invaluable contributors for business success. These firms are implementing strategies to fully engage employees at all levels. The Employees Matter report identifies sixteen fast growing entrepreneurial firms that employ employee ownership and engagement strategies which they perceive as directly linked with improved business performance. Eight other notable companies with key lessons to share are included as sidebar profiles.
Employee stock ownership and employee attitudes: A test of three models
Author: Klein, Katherine, J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology
Publication Year: 1987
Results of a test of three alternative models of the conditions necessary for employee ownership to positively influence employee attitudes are reported.
Absenteeism when workers have a voice: The case of employee ownership
Authors: Hammer, Tove H; Landau, Jacqueline C.; Stern, Robert N.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology
Publication Year: 1981
Used R. M. Steers and S. R. Rhodes's (see record 1979-09970-001) model as a framework for examining patterns of absenteeism and their predictors among 112 workers (mean age 44 yrs) in an employee-owned organization. The focus of the study was the effect of job satisfaction on voluntary absenteeism, which is traditionally thought to be either negative or canceled out by pressures to attend work.
Work alienation and problem alcohol behavior
Authors: Greenberg, Edward S.; Grunberg, Leon
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Publication Year: 1995
Using a sample of production workers from union, nonunion, producer cooperative, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) wood products mills in the Northwest, we test the general proposition that work alienation, defined as low job autonomy, low use of capacities, and lack of participation in decision-making in the workplace, is associated with heavy drinking and negative consequences from drinking.
Use Equity (Stock) to Motivate Your Key Employees
Authors: Honeycutt, Paul; Smith, Ronald
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Business owners who set up employee incentive plans generally do so to motivate their employees to work harder and smarter. There are several types of equity-based incentive plans owners can use to achieve these purposes...
Creating a High-Performing Workplace
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Interviews
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Beyster Institute Senior Consultant Martin Staubus is teaching a course entitled "Management 269: Creating a High-Performing Workplace." In this interview, Professor Staubus describes the course's five themes.
High Involvement Work Systems and Political Efficacy: A Tale of Two Departments
Authors: Schur, Lisa; Eaton, Adrienne; Rubinstein, Saul
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University
Publication Year: 2004
Carole Pateman argues that democratic participation in the workplace can increase workers’ feelings of political efficacy and political participation. We explore this issue by looking at the implementation of a high involvement work system (HIWS), using both cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons.
The Effect of ESOP Adoptions on Corporate Performance: Are there Really Rerformance Changes?
Authors: Pugh, William N.; Oswald, Sharon L.; Jahera, John S., Jr.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Managerial and Decision Economics
Publication Year: 2000
Employee Stock Ownership Programs (ESOPS) have long been promoted as a motivational tool: employees become profit-minded owners. Latterly, however, more ESOPs are being used as part of a takeover defense: here, the ESOPs main purpose is to put more company stock in friendly hands - the employees - who, like existing management, could suffer layoffs, ect. in a hostile takeover.
The Myth of the Disposable Worker
Author: Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business 2.0
Publication Year: 2005
Some management gurus say high turnover is a good thing. They're crazy.
Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-owned Firms
Authors: Pencavel, John; Pistaferri, Luigi; Schivardi, Fabiano
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Publication Year: 2006
The authors investigate how worker-owned and capitalist enterprises differ with respect to wages, employment, and capital in Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker-managed firms.
Workers as Owners: An Empirical Comparison of Intra-firm Inequalities at Employee-owned and Conventional Companies
Author: Onaran, Yalman
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Human Relations
Publication Year: 1992
Based on a sample of three employee-owned and seven conventional companies, this study empirically tests the theoretical claim that employee ownership and management reduces inequality at the firm level. Inequality is broadly defined as the unequal distribution of income, wealth, power, prestige, and privileges, as well as the existence of social boundaries between classes.
Strategic Stakeholder Perspective to ESOP Negotiations: The Case of United Airlines
Author:
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Management Decision
Publication Year: 2003
Employee stock ownership programs (ESOP) may become a source of competitive advantage but a threat to a firm’s survival as well. Strategic stakeholder negotiation, on the other hand, is a process through which an organization negotiates with multiple stakeholders in order to achieve a strategic goal. Such perspective helps to illustrate the importance of understanding, balancing, and managing stakeholder demands in ESOP-related negotiations. The airline industry provides an interesting arena in which to study this process.
Taking Stock: Are Employee Options Good for Business?
Author: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Publication Year: 2011
Many workers view stock options as a way to get a piece of their company's action and share a stake in its overall performance. But what's in it for employers?
Ownership and Outcomes
Author: Thompson, Peter B.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: University of Illinois at Chicago
Publication Year: 2005
The relationship between employee ownership and desirable organizational outcomes is well documented, but the cause, if any, is not.
Subaru of Indiana, America's Scrappiest Carmaker
Author: Farzad, Roben
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Publication Year: 2011
Zero layoffs, zero pay cuts, zero waste. Subaru manages to pull off the seemingly impossible.
Google's Education Evangelist Preaches the Gospel of Creativity
Author: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Publication Year: 2011
Jaime Casap, "Education Evangelist" at Google, argues that other companies can learn how to innovate and maintain creativity by studying Google's corporate culture, which strives for an egalitarian management style that democratizes the workplace and educates every employee about the company's mission statement.
Getting Excited About Work: How Managers Can Build Employee Engagement
Author: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Product Type: Interviews; Multimedia
Source: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Publication Year: 2011
Employee engagement -- the powerful phenomenon that can propel companies to new levels of profitability -- is never more important than in times of economic stress. But can you define it? And do you know how to make it happen in your business?
Employee-owned Company Marks 100-year Milestone
Author: Atkinson, Cathryn
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Globe and Mail
Publication Year: 2010
The way the McElhanney Group is organized has helped foster a positive, profitable culture. Forty per cent of the key staff, around 320 staff members, own 100 per cent of the shares. Mr. Newcomb says this drives the success of the company collectively.
Calveta Dining Services, Inc.: A Recipe for Growth?
Authors: Heskett, James L.; Girardi, Patricia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
New CEO Frank Calveta struggles to carry out his father's directive: double revenues within five years while maintaining the humanistic and emphatically pro-employee company culture.
CNOOC: Building a World-class Energy Company
Authors: Bower, Joseph L.; Dai, Nancy Hua; Chen, Michael Shih-ta
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Fu Chengyu, CEO to lead China National Offshore Oil Company, believes that the way CNOOC has been managed, a blend of market orientation, sustainability, and concern for employees and the nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to select new areas to explore and new sources of energy, and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the face of world class competitors.
Privatization of the Tiger Leaping House in Nanjing, PRC
Author: Grainger, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The Liang family left China’s mainland under pressure in 1949; they resettled in Taiwan, resumed their hospitality business and now, two generations later, return to find their family's old guest house is a run-down state-owned enterprise. How will they deal with this privatization and the inevitable bureaucracy of purchasing, demolition and rebuilding the old guest house? How will they convert human resources trained under planned economy conditions into dynamic employees operating in the market economy while being culturally sensitive?
Eating Their Cake and Everyone Else's Cake, Too: Resources as the Main Ingredient to Workplace Bullying
Authors: Wheeler, Anthony R.; Halbesleben, Jonathon R. B.; Shanine, Kristen
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2011
What circumstances encourage and support workplace bullying? The authors discuss this and more, as well as recommendations for organizations trying to cope with such behavior.
Transformations of Wal-Mart: Experimenting with New Retail Paradigms
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Cadieux, Danielle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Beginning in the 1990s, Wal-Mart sought to maintain its rapid growth by investing outside of the United States. This process created a new set of challenges, since the existing chains had their own corporate cultures and operating procedures. Wal-Mart experienced several surprising defeats and encountered strong opposition from labour unions. At the same time, Wal-Mart was taking a dramatic position in compelling its suppliers to adopt "green" practices, conducting audits of its suppliers and refusing to purchase from those who failed to measure up to new environmental standards.
Low-Wage / Frontline Workers Teaching Materials Portal
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This collection is part of our business faculty network on Low-Wage / Frontline Workers. It is designed to provide a repository of teaching materials that incorporate issues of low-wage workers into a business’s core decision-making process.
Solving the Dilbert Paradox
Author: Adler, Richard
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program
Publication Year: 2011
This report is the result of the 2010 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Talent Development, and details how some organizations are experimenting with ways to improve organizational learning, collaboration, and access to knowledge and ideas outside the corporate hierarchy.
Driving Organizational Change in the Midst of Crisis
Authors: Carroll, John; Hatakenaka, Sachi
Product Type: Cases
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2001
There is no recipe for pulling an organization through a crisis. You have to think on your feet. This case study shows that even in a complex, high-pressure industry openness to learning can light the way.
Case of the Willful Whistle-Blower
Author: Seymour, Sally
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1988
Jim, an employee of the nuclear division of Fairway Electric, discovered a report written fifteen years ago about a flaw in the design of their Radon II nuclear reactor...
Client Profile: Los Angeles Engineering
Author: Zollars, Ron
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Learn more about a unique engineering company that has been providing critical infrastructure services throughout southern California since 1986...
Note on Organized Labor in U.S. Public Education
Author: Leschly, Stig
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
Surveys the history, structure, and activities of the two dominant U.S. teachers unions, which represent approximately 90% of U.S. public school teachers.
Times Topics: Organized Labor
Author: The New York Times
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Web Sites
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2011
A list of resources from around the Web about organized labor as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.
'Where Everybody Knows Your Name': Lessons from Small Business about Preventing Workplace Violence
Authors: Buckley, M. Ronald; Klotz, Anthony C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2011
In this article, we uncover a number of small business practices that may counteract the threat of workplace violence, and proffer these as lessons for all managers who wish to work toward that goal.
Dysfunctional Executive Behavior: What Can Organizations Do?
Authors: Perryman, Alexa A.; Summers, James K.; Munyon, Timothy P.; Ferris, Gerald R.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2011
To better construct a work environment that diminishes self-serving and unethical behavior, we propose that organizations structure an executive's work around three factors: the accountability environment, managerial discretion, and relationship composition.
Dealing with Problem Employees: A Legal Guide for Employers
Author: Plump, Carolyn M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2011
Employee misconduct and poor performance can lead to productivity issues, morale problems, and inferior quality products. For these reasons, it behooves employers to address performance issues rather than allow them to fester.
Wal-Mart, 2007
Authors: Yoffie, David B.; Slind, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
In 2007, Wal-Mart faced challenges to its historically high growth rate. Lagging same-store sales and setbacks overseas led the company to consider strategic shifts. Wal-Mart was the world's largest retailer, but competition had become particularly acute as the company expanded from rural markets, which it had long dominated, into urban and suburban areas.
Mercadona
Authors: Ton, Zeynep; Harrow, Simon
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This case presents the predicament of a company trying to do right by its customers and its employees as the economic crisis of 2008 hits home.
How to Level the Compensation Playing Field: Employee Ownership
Author: Mortished, Carl
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Globe and Mail
Publication Year: 2010
Outrage over pay differentials between company workers and directors is making political waves in Britain. One solution? Employee ownership.
Building a System of Trust: Ten Hidden Secrets of Success in Employee-Owned Companies
Authors: Staubus, Martin; Lynch, Robert Porter
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
The great potential of employee ownership to improve business performance lies in its capacity to bring people together to work as a team toward shared success.
Champion International
Authors: Beer, Michael; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2000
Richard Olson, a long-tenured employee, was named CEO of Champion in 1996. Champion had been conducting an organizational transformation since the early 1980s that could be considered successful on most operational and social measures. However, due to industry dynamics, success on the financial side has been harder to achieve.
ApproTEC Kenya
Author: Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact of its operations across Eastern and Southern Africa. The question is, what should they do to accomplish this?
Toby Johnson (A, B)
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Danford, Leslie; Lodge, Amy; Sayles, Tereh
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
After completing her MBA in 2007, Toby Johnson, a former army pilot with the 18th Airborne Corps Rapid Deployment Force, joined PepsiCo's Leadership Development Program (LDP). For her first assignment with PepsiCo, Johnson accepted a position as a manufacturing-manager at a Frito-Lay plant in Williamsport, PA. The Williamsport plant had 200 employees and 54 million pounds of production per year. The case describes how Johnson took charge of the plant, and her action plan for implementing a new set of changes
Systems Infrastructure at Google (A, B)
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Stecker, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This case describes how a Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application storage systems.
George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A, B, C)
Authors: Perlow, Leslie A.; Herman, Kerry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
The case considers the challenges professional service firm employees face in terms of work-life issues.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Engagement, Course Overview
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Thomason, Bobbi; Tydlaska, Jennifer
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Analyzes the link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and employee engagement, including CSR effects on employee commitment and motivation, new skills and training, and motivation.
Hewlett-Packard
Authors: Beer, Michael; Khurana, Rakesh; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
HP had been a highly successful and respected company for decades. It was well known for its company culture and management practices--the HP way--which emphasized both profits and people. Changing markets, strong competitors, and the growth of its computer business, however, battered the company in the mid-1990s. To turn things around, HP hired Carly Fiorina, the first outsider to lead the company.
Michelle Levene (A, B, C)
Authors: Casciaro, Tiziana; Winston, Victoria W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Michelle Levene discovers that she is pregnant a few days before receiving an offer for her dream job. The new position would require Levene to travel extensively, something she would not be able to do towards the end of the pregnancy and while caring for a newborn.
Hindustan Unilever Limited
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Srivastava, Mona
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This case illustrates HUL's conflict resolution and people development policies using a 'Leading from the middle' example.
You've Been Tagged! (Then Again, Maybe Not): Employers and Facebook
Authors: Smith, William P.; Kidder, Deborah L.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2010
Social networking sites, such as Facebook, have exploded on to the cultural and business landscape. Not only can firms use social networking sites to present organizational information to interested parties, but also perhaps gather information regarding job applicants. As an employer, checking out an applicant's Facebook page--much like Googling a candidate's name--is very tempting.
Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: The Case of HCSS
Authors: Roche, Olivier; Shipper, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University
Publication Year: 2010
Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc. [HCSS] designs and sells hi-tech software to the heavy/highway construction industry. The case describes a unique corporate culture that has made HCSS a business success in a highly competitive industry.
Managing Talent at Bertelsmann AG (A)
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Nohria, Nitin; Maletz, Mark C.; Herman, Kerry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Bertelsmann's EVP HR Immanuel Hermreck and his team were focused on four key HR issues. Three of these were somewhat discreet: improving Bertelsmann's employer brand; managing Bertelsmann talent across the firm's decentralized businesses; and ensuring early identification and appropriate development of Bertelsmann's top 100 high potential managers (hi-pos) to better seed the company's future top management. The fourth issue-recruitment and retention-played an integral role across all three challenges and had to be strengthened and made consistent across the firm, not an easy prospect given Bertelsmann's highly decentralized structure.
Kent Thiry
Authors: George, William W.; Kindred, Natalie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's robust, unconventional internal culture.
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