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CHIPS Act Adds Employee Ownership to Manufacturing and Innovation Training Programs

Small Step Forward on Employee Ownership Provisions in WORK Act

A Roadmap for Committees to Facilitate Ownership Thinking and Behavior A manager once asked me to complete a fairly large and complicated project without any guidance or direction on important tools to use, nor any tips on how to solve fairly common problems.

For most employees, especially of large public companies, the company is a collection of individuals. Employee efforts to help the company may help them to get promotions or a bonus, but in most cases have little direct effect on other employees.

It’s not a partisan issue. Right, left, and middle agree that too many Americans have too little wealth. Just over 20% of all Americans have no wealth at all.

Every now and then, a book creates an “aha” moment that changes the way you think about things forever. For me, three best-selling books did that: Leadership and Self-Deception, The Great Game of Business, and Ideas Are Free.

Your company had a good year—sales and profits were up, and you introduced some new products. So stock price should go up too, right? Usually, the answer is yes, but in some years the stock price could actually go down. How can that be?

We are often asked by ESOP companies to provide advice on what insurance policy limits they should purchase for these coverages. This report is an update of previous benchmarking reports provided in the last 15 years and offers answers to these questions for ESOP companies. This is the only benchmarking report strictly based on ESOP company data and obtained from the over 350 policyholders in this affinity insurance program.

One of the most popular sessions at the recent NCEO virtual conference was by Sandy Kostouros, corporate communications manager of Morton Buildings, a 100% ESOP company with more than 1,800 employees in 43 states.

On August 8, the IRS issued a press release warning about tax avoidance in employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) transactions. It is not clear what prompted the memo or whether there are any specific transactions that the IRS is investigating.