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Insuring the future: Foundation secure, co-founder focuses on giving back
Author: Engstrom, Tim
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Interviews
Source: Fort Myers News-Press
Publication Year: 2006
Oswald Trippe & Co. will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year, but longevity isn’t what cofounder and chief executive officer Gary Trippe lists as his top accomplishment.
The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Begins Construction
Author: Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Owners at Work, Volume XXI No. 1 Summer 2009
Publication Year: 2009
Although the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry will be a small enterprise within the multibillion dollar initiative to redevelop Cleveland’s Greater University Circle area, its many creators have launched it with the expectation that it will play a very large role in establishing a new generation of worker cooperatives in Cleveland.
The Fabric of Creativity
Author: Deutschman, Alan
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Fast Company, Issue 89
Publication Year: 2007
At W.L. Gore, innovation is more than skin deep: The culture is as imaginative as the products.
Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance
Authors: Kruse, Douglas; Freeman, Richard B.; Blasi, Joseph; Buchele, Robert; Scharf, Adria; Rodgers, Loren; Mackin, Christopher
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Industrial Relations Research Association
Publication Year: 2003
The growth of ESOPs over the past 25 years is part of a general growth in compensation arrangements linking worker pay to company performance, including profit sharing, gain-sharing, and broad-based stock options in addition to the various methods of employee ownership.
SAMITI
Authors: Varman, Rahul; Chakrabarti, Manali
Product Type: Cases
Source: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
Publication Year: 2001
SAMITI is a workers’ co-operative which provides contractual support in “low” skilled or “unskilled” jobs of civil maintenance and construction, house painting, and sanitation & cleaning, primarily to a premier technological institute of India.
Promotion of Female Executives: An Executive's Tough Decision
Author: Pence Dudgeon, J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Tecnologico de Monterrey
Publication Year: 2007
This case emerged from discussion with my students about the situation of the Mexican professional woman. It is based on a variety and combination of real experiences and situations that the author has experienced in Mexico.
Productivity in Cooperatives and Worker-owned Enterprises: Ownership and Participation Make a Difference!
Authors: Logue, John; Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Prepared for Employment Sector, International Labour Office, Geneva
Publication Year: 2005
The survival rate of worker cooperatives and employee-owned firms in market economics appears to equal or surpass that of conventional firms. But they typically return a different combination of economic benefits to their member-owners than do conventional firms...
Joystar, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
A small company with a wide network of travel professionals, Joystar, Inc., is a publicly-traded host agency for more than 5,000 home-based travel agents, and it offers stock options to each and every one of them.
Managing Without Managers
Author: Semler, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1989
Semco S/A is a manufacturing company in Brazil where workers make corporate decisions, set their own hours, and have access to monthly financial figures. The company's management philosophy is antihierarchical and perhaps unorthodox, but its profits are handsome. The company operates on the basis of three key principles: work force democracy, profit sharing, and free access to information.
New Economy Ethics: YouKnowIt.com
Authors: Slack, Kim; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2000
The case suggests ways of compensating the advisory board and raises questions about whether there are new rules in the new economy about building professional networks, and when offers of equity constitute bribery and wrong doing.
The Real World of Employee Ownership
Authors: Logue, John; Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Using data from an extensive study of employee-owned companies in Ohio, where employee ownership is a well-developed trend, this book offers a strong empirical portrait of firms with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).
Scott Bader
Author:
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Ownership of chemical company Scott Bader is unusual. Since 1963 it has been wholly owned by a charitable trust, the Scott Bader Commonwealth.
Employee Share Ownership in Unlisted Entities: Objectives, Current Practices and Regulatory Reform
Author: O'Connell, Ann
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The University of Melbourne
Publication Year: 2008
The project subjects the existing regulatory regime for employee share ownership plans in Australia – in tax, corporate and labour law – to technical and empirical scrutiny. This report considers the objectives and current practice in this area and notes that employee ownership levels tend to be lower for unlisted entities than for listed entities. It also examines the regulatory obstacles to such ownership and makes recommendations for reform to facilitate employee ownership in this area.
Daimler Chrysler
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2005
Daimler Chrysler is putting its sustainable development into practice in many ways, placing its highest priority on the battle against HIV/AIDS faced by many of the workers at its South African plant.
Innovation from Differentiation: Pollution Control Departments and Innovation in the Printed Circuit Industry
Author: King, Andrew
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Volume 42, No. 3.
Publication Year: 1995
Theory predicts that managers will create special boundary-spanning departments to insulate a firm from changing surrounding conditions. Theory also predicts such insulating structures will inhibit adaptation...
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.
Is One Global Model of Corporate Governance Likely, or Even Desirable?
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
Just as different nations have developed languages, foods and local customs, they also have adapted their own forms of corporate governance and board structures. Now, as business continues to globalize, new pressure from international capital pools and government regulators may diminish the local and national flavor of corporate boards, according to Wharton faculty and other experts in corporate governance.
Organizational Ecology and Knowledge Networks
Author: Becker, Franklin
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
This article introduces the concept of organizational ecology as a frame of reference for thinking about the workplace as a complex web of interdependent social and organizational factors that, in combination, influence informal communication, interaction, and learning patterns.
Cracking the Complexity Code
Authors: Heywood, Suzanne; Spungin, Jessica; Turnbull, David
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
There are two types of complexity. Understanding where to intervene is the key to managing them to create value...
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)
Author:
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters; Web Sites
Source: http://www.eolss.net
Publication Year: 2008
The EOLSS is a knowledge base that addresses all the myriad aspects of sustainable development from ecological issues to human security. EOLSS covers roughly 200 themes, each managed by an internationally recognized expert in the field.
The Concept of Workplace Performance and its Value to Managers
Author: Vischer, Jacqueline C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
This article replaces the commonly asked question of how to “measure” the effect of environmental design on productivity with a practical framework that values workspace environmental features in human terms.
S Corp ESOP Legislation Benefits and Costs: Public Policy and Tax Analysis
Authors: Freeman, Steven F.; Knoll, Michael
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Center for Organizational Dynamics
Publication Year: 2008
Samuel Zell’s acquisition of the Tribune Company in December 2007 using an S corporation employee stock ownership plan (S ESOP) brought S ESOPs to national attention.
ESOPs and Earnings Management: An Empirical Note
Author: Jiraporn, Pornsit
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Pennsylvania State University - Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies & Thammasat University
Publication Year: 2006
This study seeks to ascertain the impact of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) on earnings management.
Myth #4: Employee Ownership Leads to Two Corporate Excesses: Employee Entitlements and Executive Compensation
Author: Scott, Bill
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2007
Many who first hear of the idea of employee ownership react with skepticism.
Davey Tree Stands Tall with Employee Ownership
Author: Thomas, Karen
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Owners at Work, Summer 2004
Publication Year: 2004
Over 25 years, The Davey Tree Expert Company's employee owners built a good small company into one of the premier companies in its industry, with an entrepreneurial zest for new products and acquisitions. The company's development would have pleased its inventive founder and provably surprised the family members who sold it to hesitant employees in 1979.
Downsizing the Company Without Downsizing Morale
Authors: Mishra, Aneil K. ; Mishra, Karen E. ; Spreitzer, Gretchen M.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2009
When downsizing is unavoidable, smart managers look for opportunities to improve flexibility, innovation and internal communication to improve trust between managers and employees.
Unions and Employee Ownership: A Road to Economic Democracy?
Author: Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 709-733
Publication Year: 2006
In the relationship between unions and employee share ownership, neither threatened the other, and their combination led to benefits for employees, particularly where unionized employees were majority owners.
Molded Dimensions, Inc.
Authors: Bowen, H. K.; Fuller, Virginia A.; Spinner, Doren
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
Mike Katz, an MBA with several years of manufacturing management experience, talks about purchasing Molded Dimensions, Inc. (MDI), a Wisconsin-based plastics manufacturer, with his wife Linda, who also has a manufacturing background.
The Impact of Employee Involvement and Group Incentives on Performance in UK High Technology Establishments
Author: Sesil, James
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers; Books / Book Chapters
Source: Center for HR Strategy, Rutgers University
Publication Year: 1999
There is increasing recognition that the way in which the employment relationship is structured has an impact on the success of an enterprise.
Colonial Traditions, Inc
Authors: Miller, T; Tankersley, I
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 1998
Alice Borden, Sales Manager for Colonial Traditions, Inc, must take a recommendation to her new boss and General Manager, Phil Rigby, about how to handle the complaint of disgruntled customer Fred Townsend.
A Slippery Place in the U.S. Work Force
Author: Preston, Julia
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2009
The faithful stand and hold their hands high, raising a crescendo of prayer for abundance and grace. In the evangelical church where they are gathered, the folding chairs are filled with immigrants from Latin America.
Retaliation
Authors: Sincoff, Michael Z.; Slonaker, William M.; Wendt, Ann C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons, Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2006
This case discusses the increasing prevalence of retaliation as a basis for employment discrimination claims and offer recommendations to employers on how best to handle such claims.
Green Mountain Coffee
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2004
Green Mountain Coffee would have to rank high among publicly traded companies in its commitment to employee ownership.
Global Job Markets and US Leadership
Author: Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: SmartEconomist.com
Publication Year: 2006
Harvard University Professor Richard B. Freeman answered readers' questions on the relationships among immigration flows, scientific education and the global market for skilled workers, on how they affect US technological leadership, and on their implications for economic policy.
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
Authors: Bazerman, Max; Tenbrunsel, Ann E.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2011
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco industry, to sales of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be.
Beyond the Myth of the Perfect Mentor
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Kamprath, Nancy
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1998
In this note, we explore the process by which a network of developmental relationships can be cultivated in place of one “perfect mentor.” We also discuss the benefits of such relationships for those in the minority.
Placer Dome's Care Project Gives Miners New Start
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2005
The Winter 2004 Issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review tells the story of Placer Dome's development of "The Care Project" to facilitate the lay off of more than 13,000 employees in seven countries in a fair and responsible manner.
Note on Human Behavior
Authors: Nohria, Nitin; Gurtler, Bridget
Product Type: Notes
Source:
Publication Year: 2004
In simple terms, we conclude that virtuous behavior stems from a person of integrity with strong character and immoral behavior from a person of little integrity with weak character.
But It Was With My Wife: Failing to Address After-Hours Workplace Indiscretions
Authors: Carson, C.; Goodman, J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Case Method Institute
Publication Year: 2008
After this case exercise and instructor discussion, students should be able to identify the differences between hostile environment and quid pro quo sexual harassment, the legal proofs for both forms of sexual harassment, and employer liability for sexual harassment.
Hana's Dilemma: Suck It Up or Quit?
Author: Osland, Asbjorn
Product Type: Cases
Source: San Jose State University
Publication Year: 2009
Hana Tan, a recently employed college graduate with a general business degree, was in the midst of her training program when her manager’s manager, a fellow named Eric, humiliated her in front of her training group. She wondered, “Should I quit?"
Fastener Industries: 25 Years of Stability and Prosperity
Author: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University
Publication Year: 2005
At a time when Ohio companies are closing and the state has lost over 16% of its manufacturing jobs since the start of the recession in March 2001, 100% employee-owned Fastener Industries is celebrating 100 years in business and 25 years of employee ownership.
Zions Bancorp
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Zions First National Bank is taking advantage of a provision in the new stock options accounting standard by selling securities that will pay out as the employee stock options they track are exercised.
A Statistical Profile of Employee Ownership
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2009
Estimated Number of Plans and Employees; Value of Plan Assets.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
Google’s unusual prospectus when it went public included a definitive statement by its founders that it would continue its broad ownership system and its high-involvement culture whether investors and analysts liked it or not.
Architecture and Communication among Product Development Engineers
Author: Allen, Thomas J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
Summarizes quantitative measures and qualitative observations regarding the effect of architecture on technical communication.
The Internet, Organizational Change and Labor
Authors: Jacobs, David C.; Yudken, Joel S.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Routledge; 1 edition
Publication Year: 2003
The focus of The Internet, Social Intelligence & Labor is the impact of the Internet on human resources and the balance of power between labor and management...
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.
Employment Vignettes
Authors: Goldberg, Lena G.; Carr, Chad M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Six vignettes drawn from decided cases explore legal and business issues in diversity, hiring, firing, promoting and demoting employees.
Empowerment or Else
Author: Frey, Robert
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1993
Nine years ago, the author bought a small manufacturing company with marginal profits, poor union relations, nit-picking work rules, and high labor costs. After a year of bickering, Frey decided he wanted to implement profit sharing.
Organizational Response to Environmental Regulation: Punctuated Change or Autogenesis?
Author: King, Andrew
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Strategy and the Environment, 9, 2000, pp. 224-238
Publication Year: 2000
Theory predicts that when faced with threatening new conditions, managers often attempt to preserve the status quo by creating a buffer between the organization and the outside world. This paper presents evidence that in response to new water pollution regulation, managers indeed created buffers of technology and personnel...
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