Intro -- Incentivising Employees -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Key legal and policy issues … better than those without ESOPs? -- Why do employers implement ESOPs and why do employees participate? -- Characteristics of … Current incidence and forms of employee share ownership plans in Australia -- Existing empirical data -- Overview of key …

This new book, published by Melbourne University Publishing, examines employee share ownership in Australia. Employee … and practice of employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) in Australia. The chapters of the book are: 1.) Key legal and … policy issues relevant to ESOPs. 2.) The current incidence and forms of ESOPs in Australia. 3.) The corporate law framework …

Employee share ownership in Australia has, until recently, been largely unchartered, despite considerable public policy …-based employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) in Australia, and the motivations and objectives of employers in implementing them, the … reasons why non-executive Australian employees elect or decline to participate in ESOPs remain unclear. Where shares or …

employees participate in these plans. Yet understanding employee motivations for share ownership has significant implications … Australia in order to identify Federal Government policy rationales for ESOPs. We then identify employee motives for … participating in employee share plans. Two hypotheses, using data from both employee shareholders and non shareholders in Australia …