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Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction

Harvard Business Review

Since the mid-2000s, broad-based shared capitalist programs — in other words, programs where firms offer profit sharing and employee ownership to nonmanagers as well as managers — have spread to cover more employees than traditional forms of individual performance-based pay in Europe and the United States.

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Treat Employees Like Business Owners

Harvard Business Review

Employee loyalty and engagement are hot topics, and for good reason. Many large corporations manage to find big bundles of shares (and huge amounts of cash) for executive compensation, even though there’s little relationship between senior-management pay and financial results. It doesn’t have to be. Insight Center.

ESOP 8