Non-executive employees are increasingly being offered the opportunity to participate in employee share ownership plans. In many cases, companies provide their employees with shares or options as a 'gift', either on a one-off or regular basis. Many plans, however, are structured so as to require...

Employee share ownership (ESO) has been the subject of significant public policy debate. In these debates, ESO plans are usually said to be implemented for a variety of reasons including alignment of employer and employee interests, increased employee productivity, improved workplace harmony,...

This research report provides detailed analysis of data collected from a major survey into how company directors balance the competing and sometimes conflicting interests of stakeholder groups, including employees, creditors and shareholders. The findings have significant policy implications....

This research report presents findings from a survey of employee share ownership practice in Australian listed companies. The research focused on broad-based employee share ownership plans (ESOPs): that is, plans that are open to a majority of employees within the company. The purpose of this...

This research report contains the findings of 10 case studies of Australian companies undertaken as part of a project to better understand the relationships between corporate structure, corporate governance and labour relations. We first sought to assess each of our case study companies...

Since at least the 1970s, employee share ownership has enjoyed bipartisan political support in Australia. Despite broad and sustained public policy interest in employee share ownership, however, Australian literature on the subject remains scarce. There has also been very little in the way of...