This new book, published by Melbourne University Publishing, examines employee share ownership in Australia. Employee share ownership has the potential to generate a culture of enterprise and innovation, and build national wealth and savings. This book is the culmination of a multi-year research...

Employee share ownership in Australia has, until recently, been largely unchartered, despite considerable public policy interest in the area. Although empirical research has recently been undertaken into the current incidence and forms of broad-based employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) in...

Although Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) are widely used in Australian companies, little is known about why employees participate in these plans. Yet understanding employee motivations for share ownership has significant implications for corporate governance, human resource practice and...

Through employee share schemes, employees have the opportunity to take up equity in the company for which they work. There are two distinct types of employee share schemes: ‘broad-based' schemes that are open to the majority of employees within a company, and ‘narrow-based' schemes that are...

An important and controversial corporate governance issue is the extent to which share ownership by directors increases corporate performance. Some commentators suggest that increasing directors' shareholdings in their companies provides directors with the incentive to improve corporate...

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...

Intro -- Incentivising Employees -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Key legal and policy issues -- Rationales for employee share ownership -- Improving enterprise performance -- Industrial relations objectives -- Contributing to national savings -- Promoting innovation --...