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Frontiers and Boundaries Handbook
Mapping Decision-Making Responsibility

A step-by-step guide to clarifying who does what at employee-ownership companies
Published by Ownership Associates
Cambridge, MA
Current Release: November 18, 2003.

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Resources

To learn more about clarifying decision making responsibility and increasing employee involvement, browse these online resources.

• Frontiers and Boundaries: Managing Ownership Expectations is a curriculum developed by Ownership Associates over the last ten years in response to clients seeking to involve their work forces in the decision making process. This booklet introduces a framework to help companies plan, develop, communicate and evaluate management systems that are inclusive, efficient, widely understood and broadly supported.
• Participation: Decision Making and Employee Ownership The second in a series of Ownership Culture Reports, working papers on the quantitative study of ownership culture. Click to download the file as a PDF [502 KB].
• Self-Direction and Employee-Ownership: An Ownership Associates Working Paper that outlines three aspects of shared decision-making: autonomy, participation, and influence and their relationship to productivity.
• Getting People to Participate: An article published in NCEO's Employee Ownership Report on clarifying and shifting decision making responsibility.
• ESOP Committees -- Design Parameters (Briefing Paper 3) offers a checklist of issues to resolve before setting up an ESOP committee for the committee to have maximum success contributing to the health of the company. Buy now!
• Representative Structures in Employee-Owned Firms: from the Spring, 1995 issue of the Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance
• "Employee Owned and Governed" The Carris Community of Companies. Background information on Carris Reels, one of the nation's most innovative ESOP companies and an Ownership Associates client.

Online Resources: Frontiers and Boundaries Handbook