Employee Ownership Blog

A new NCEO issue brief, Equity Compensation in a Down Market: Repricing, Accounting, ESPP, and Employee Communications Issues, examines issues that arise in dealing with equity compensation plans in a down

The NCEO is a sponsor of The Gathering of the Games, the Great Game of Business' annual conference May 6-8 in Saint Louis. The conference is a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts meeting on how to do open-book management effectively.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has reopened the question of whether shares held by an ESOP that are mandatorily redeemable upon the occurrence of an event certain to occur, such as death, termination, or retirement, should be accounted for as a liability rather than equity.

Under intense pressure from the public, striking workers, and Sarkozy government, the two top executives at the French utility GDF Suez have given up their stock options and instead will use the money to provide options to 8,000 individual employees and 4.4 million free shares to its 200,000 empl

The NCEO is revising our book on incentive compensation plans, and we would love to hear from you about what your experiences, good and bad, have been. Any details of what has made plans succeed or fail would be much appreciated. We can keep your company's name anonymous if you prefer.

OAKLAND, Calif., April 1: The National Center for Employee Ownership, working in conjunction with a major medical imaging company, will soon announce a breakthrough technology to help companies better measure how varying approaches to executive compensation affect executive performance.

A new Grant Thornton survey of 227 organizations ranging from small businesses to large enterprises, 87% of which are for-profit corporations, found that 37% of public companies plan to increase the number of shares available for awards in 2009, 34% will make no changes, and 28% will decrease the

In the face of the stock market's sharp decline, more people are calling for a reduction of employer stock in retirement plans.

Rutgers University has established the J. Robert Beyster Professorship of Employee Ownership, the first endowed chair in this field.

Financial security for employees is an especially important-and challenging-issue this year. It has also been consistently shown to be one of the prime drivers of employee attraction, retention, and engagement.

We have completely revised our estimating techniques for ESOPs and plans that function like ESOPs (stock bonus plans and profit sharing plans primarily invested in company stock) to create a more accurate and conservative estimate of the number of plans, how many participants they have, and the v

Before President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill in Denver, he and Vice-President Biden toured Namaste Solar, an employee-owned company and upcoming case study at our annual conference in Portland, OR, on April 22-24.