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A new study by the NCEO has found that publicly traded companies with more than 10% employee ownership are neither more nor less likely to involve their workers in Total Quality Management (TQM) programs, work teams, mini-business units, quality circles, or other forms of participative management

Privately held ESOP companies must repurchase their shares from departing employees. This "repurchase obligation" can be substantial.

A new NCEO study concludes that 5 million employees work for companies with broad stock option plans. The estimate is probably conservative, but still reflects the enormous growth is this approach to employee ownership.

Data on equity compensation practices in closely held companies is hard to find. What data sets that do exist are generally based on client responses or are limited to the high-tech sector.

The NCEO has completed a new survey of equity compensation practices in private companies. We received 201 completed surveys from companies and 32 from service providers.

In conjunction with TriNet VCO, a venture capital resource company in San Leandro, CA, the NCEO recently conducted a survey on stock option plan design in companies receiving venture capital financing.

As reported in this column on May 10, a new NCEO survey shows that most companies are not, as has been widely predicted, about to terminate their employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs). Of 117 respondents, 26 companies will or might modify their plans.

A new NCEO survey of 222 diverse ESOP companies shows that 75% have experienced no change in access to long-term credit and 79% have had no change in access to short-term credit.

Many ESOP companies provide financial wellness education for employees—and even more should. Employees really appreciate the help in learning how to think about wealth-building strategies for the long term, and especially how their ESOP accounts fit into that.

A new study of option granting practices for CEOs in public companies finds that companies tend to grant options based more on a fixed number of options than on the value of these awards.