Re: Please help with this paper

["Don Ward" <donrward@hotmail.com>]

Dan I am not able to call up the paper you referred to.However;, I do agree 
with all of the obstacles you list. I think that there is another, based on 
an experience with my wifes brother, who spent his
mqrketing career selling power genetating equipment to power companies. Then 
when the government begaqn to deregulate power companies (I think that is 
not totally unlike privitizing) guys like him were hired to help market the 
power products. He found a mindset on the part of management which had 
little orno concept how to mqnqge in that unregulated enviornment. If there 
had been the issue of turning the organization into an employee owned 
company immediately, it might have resulted in chaos. It would seem to me 
that it might make sense for the organization to get on it's feet identify 
it's  market and customers and competitors and make a profit before  
creating anESOP. In order to help orient employees to ownership a stock 
purchase, or stock option plan could be offered.

As for employee lack of interest there are probably are as many reasons for 
this as there are employees who are not interested. I have not yet read 
Shaan's paper on employee governance,so this  next comment may not be 
appropriate for his view.  In principle I would support more workplace 
democracy. In implementing this however, it has been my experience that Once 
employees realize that they are  expected help in the decision and control, 
some grab on real fast, some remain sceptical and a few, including some 
lower management never buy in. Hope this adds a bit to the discussion.  Don 
Ward                  From: Dan Bell <dbell@kent.edu>
>Reply-To: EOpriv@cog.kent.edu
>To: eopriv@cog.kent.edu
>Subject: Please help with this paper
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:30:12 -0500
>
>One of the goals of bringing together members of the
>Capital Ownership Group to discuss the use of employee ownership
>in privatization, is to develop recommendations for improving
>its use.
>)
>An outcome of the listserv "Employee Ownership in Privatizatioon"
>(eopriv@cog.kent.edu) is a paper which collects our recommendations
>for making employee ownership more successful as a tool of
>privatization.
>
>I have begun a draft of this paper. The draft tries to focus
>the scope of the paper on obstacles to the successful use
>of employee ownership in privatization and then generate
>ideas for what different roleplayers can do to overcome
>these obstacles.
>
>The role players are:
>International donors/lenders
>National governments
>Regional credit institutions
>Regional technical assistance organizations
>Labor organizations
>Employees
>
>The obstacles are:
>Privatization agencies unwilling to sell to employees
>Lack of employee interest/support
>Lack of competent management
>Lack of a viable market
>Inefficient operation/technology
>Lack of labor/management cooperation
>Unavailability of financing for growth
>
>Please review the paper and offer feedback and ideas
>on filling out the section for overcoming obstacles.
>The DRAFT can be found at:
>http://cog.kent.edu/lib/privitization.htm
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Dan
>--
>Dan Bell
>International Program Coordinator
>Ohio Employee Ownership Center
>Kent State University
>Kent, OH 44242
>(330) 672-3028
>(330) 672-4063 fax
>dbell@kent.edu
>http://www.kent.edu/oeoc/
>http://cog.kent.edu

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