Questions for Employee Owners: The Bindner Analytics Guide for Expanding Cooperative Democracy

How-to forenlarging democracy in ESOP firms will enhance quality of worklife, innovation, recruitment of the best staff, decision-making and cooperative consumption and finance. The key to greater democracy is to give members something to vote for rather than promoting ownership one Tuesday a month over reheated Lasagna. Continuing a hierarchic organizational model is incompatible with egalitarian ownership. This volume is the technical proposal for employee-owned, union owned and cooperative firms who want more involvement from their employee-owners. It will be sent for free to interested clients, along with a management volume containing staff biographies and past performance, as well as our schedule of fees. In most firms, decisions on organization and management are hierarchic and consumption is considered outside the group. This volume guides members into make-buy-pay decisions on management selection and pay, recruitment, education, distribution of profit, rewarding innovation, cooperative housing and food production, financial services, healthcare, and human and transportation services now provided by government.