Sharing Ownership: The Manager's Guide to ESOPs and Other Productivity Incentive Plans

by Darien A. McWhirter

Overview

A practical, how-to guide regarding legal issues and business benefits of ownership incentive plans, especially ESOPs. Describes how they can be used to expand or sell a company, increase productivity, takeover a firm, defend against a takeover and restructure employee benefits. Experts in a variety of fields contribute short summaries which deal with particular questions of interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471577331
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/06/1993
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 9.59(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

About the author

DARIEN A. McWHIRTER is an attorney and consultant specializing in employment law. He received his PhD in political science from Yale University and his JD from the University of Texas Law School. He has been general counsel for The National Center for Employee Ownership and editor of the Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance. He is the author of Your Rights at Work (Wiley), now in its second edition.

Table of Contents

THE BASICS.

The Tax Man Cometh.

Creating Artificial People.

Stocks, Bonds, and Options.

What Is It Worth?.

Pensions and Employee Benefit Plans.

Why Ownership?.

FORMS OF OWNERSHIP.

Stock Options.

Stock.

Trusts.

Cooperatives.

EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLANS.

Creating an ESOP.

Using an ESOP to Grow a Company.

Other Uses for ESOPs.

The Problem with ESOPs.

The Future of Ownership Sharing.

Index.