In my 30 years-plus advising family business owners and others on employee stock ownership plans, I’ve often seen surveys of ESOP employees. Invariably, they document employees’ greater financial and job security as well as satisfaction compared with their counterparts at conventional firms.
But how do ESOP owners and top executives feel? Are these CEOs equally positive about the benefits of employee ownership?
To determine how C-suite executives feel about ESOPs and employee ownership, we at Verit Advisors® decided to ask them. We commissioned original research by Greentarget, an independent survey firm, that polled 200 company founders and C-suite executives across a broad range of industries. They comprised 90
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