Last week Business Pundit posted a chart of data provided by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on where 21 of the richest countries in the world stand in offering paid annual leave to their workers. As many U.S. workers know – and surely most all of their leaders and managers – our country is alone [...]
Barry Moltz, author of the well received, customer service-oriented book BAM!, has a new post on The Small Business Blog in which he offers up his list of the 20 most important words in small business. While one of his words – Empowerment – is directly attributed to employee engagement performance, Moltz frames the other [...]
Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has an illuminating post on Small Business Trends this week in which, based on U.S. Census data of 6-year-old businesses, he shows that the typical (or median) entrepreneur’s sales are below the average (or mean) sales in 9 sectors. Shane writes that this distinction [...]
Today on The One-Stop ESOP Blog, Aaron Juckett shares highlights of the National Center for Employee Ownership’s (NCEO) Statistical Profile of Employee Ownership for 2009. Juckett’s first bullet is: The number of "ESOPs, stock bonus plans, & profit sharing plans primarily invested in employer stock" declined from 10,800 in 2007 and 2008 to 10,500 in [...]
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