worker ownership
Staff-held enterprise model
Worker ownership is a business model in which employees hold equity stakes in the company they work for, typically through structures like cooperatives, employee stock ownership plans, or profit-sharing arrangements.
Rather than outside investors or distant shareholders controlling the enterprise, workers themselves have a say in decisions and share in profits.
Advocates argue it aligns incentives between labor and management, while critics note challenges with raising capital and decision-making efficiency.
The brewery converted to worker ownership after the founder retired.
- profit sharingDistributing earnings to workers
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- workplace democracyCollective worker control of business
- shop floorIndustrial production workspace
- ESOPWorker ownership program
cooperative · solidarity · fair wages · empowerment · financial autonomy · wealth redistribution · social justice · common good · community building · self-management · inclusivity · equity stake · sweat equity · skin in the game
- socialismMarxism, communism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, means of production
- decentralizationdecentralized, distribute, spread, disperse, scatter
- leftismMarxism, socialism, communism, leftist, socialist
- profit sharingprofit sharing, profit-sharing, shared profits, revenue sharing, bonus
- shared ownershipco-op, cooperative, joint tenancy, communal property, community property
- Alternative Economicsgift economy, barter, barter system, planned economy, command economy
worker ownershipabsentee ownership
Possessing property without presence
corporate ownership · family ownership · board control · sole proprietorship
worker ownershiptop-down management
Leadership from the hierarchy's apex
command hierarchy · wage labor · employment-at-will · Taylorism · Fordism
worker ownershipwage labor
Work exchanged for payment
employment-at-will · corporate hierarchy · capitalism · plutocracy
worker, ownership, work, owner, works, worked, working, workers, workable