FIFTH
EUROPEAN MEETING OF EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
BRUSSELS, JUNE 16-17-18, 2005
EOLE
first European conference was held in Brussels on June 16-17-18, 2005,
in the prestigious installations of the National Bank of Belgium,
near the Grand Place in the center of the city. The
EUROPEAN EOLE REPORT is now available, just click here.
Here
are all presentations (mostly PPT):
1.
Marc Mathieu - Programme of the Conference
2.
Marc Mathieu - Presentation of EOLE Programme and database
3.
Corey Rosen - EO and corporate performance
4. Michael Masset, Share-based Plans Manager, Dexia Group
5.
Robert
Scallon, President of FAST, Thales Group - Presentation part 1
-
Presentation part 2
6.
Michael J. Keeling, President of the ESOP Association
7.
Corey Rosen, NCEO - Why communicating is so hard. And what
you can do about it.
Corey Rosen, NCEO - Basic persuasion skills in employee ownership
8.
Bill McIntyre, Director of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center
(OEOC)
9.
David Binns, Associate Director of the Beyster Institute for
Entrepreneurial Employee Ownership
10.
Chris Mackin, President of Ownership Associates, Inc.
11.
Fred Freundlich, Professor, Mondragon Universidade
12.
Juan Ignacio Aizpurua, Formacion Cooperativa en Mondragon
Corporacion Cooperativa
13. Josetxo Hernandez, Director of the Spanish Confederation of
Employee-Owned Companies (CONFESAL)
14.
Geoff
Miller, Tullis Russell Group - Tullis Russell Business Game for employee
ownership education
15. Pierre-Yves Gomez, Executive Director of the French Corporate
Governance Institute
16.
Mervyn Wilson, Chief Executive of the Co-operative College:
1) Training for employee owners in co-operatives in the UK (PPT presentation
2)
Text presentation
17.
David Erdal, Baxi Partnership - Training and education for
employee buyouts in UK
18.
Javier San José, Basque Federation of Employee-Owned Companies
- Service pour la qualté de la gestion
19.
Dan Bell, OEOC - Training and education for employee buyouts
in the Ohio
20.
Erkki Kangas, - Training and education for employee buyouts
in Finland
21.
Anthony Jensen - Insolvency Employee Entitlements and Employee
Buyouts
22.
Volkmar
Hanf, AGP - Erfolg von "Employee buyouts" (in German)
Volkmar
Hanf, AGP - Employee buyouts need partnershiporientated corporate
leadership
23. Hans Van Tol, CEO, Monidee Finance BV
24.
Michael Lezius, AGP - Mitarbeiterbeteiligung und Mitbestimmung
25.
Heinrich Beyer, AGP - Mitarbeiterbeteiligung als Erfolgsfaktor
26.
Ludovic Wolff, presentation about Dexia Employee Benefits
27. Françoise
Platteborse, presentation about ING services
Get
here the leaflet of the Fifth European Meeting and all practical info
(pdf)
UPDATE OF
THE PROGRAMME
Thursday 16 June 2005
10.00 - 10.45 Conference opening and welcome speeches
To be fully successful, employee ownership and financial participation
of workers need training and education. It is an integral part of
the Lisbon Strategy.
• Pierre Vanrijkel, President of EFES
• Stéphane Ouaki representing Mr Vladimir Spidla, European Commissionner
• Marc Mathieu, Secretary General of EFES
10.45 – 11.30 Good practice in employee ownership training
and education. EOLE Programme and database.
EOLE database gathers some 150 training and education programmes. It gives a
good picture of the development of employee ownership in the world
and what are the real needs in respect of training and education.
• Marc Mathieu, Head Manager of EOLE Programme
11.30 – 12.15 New evidence on employee ownership and
corporate performance
Joseph Blasi and Douglas Kruse are known for their research on employee
ownership and corporate performance. They are now in the final months
of completing the surveys of a new multi-year research. Co-incedentally,
all the main American organisations have now set up the "Committee
for Effective Employee Ownership" with a list of ten principles.
• Corey Rosen, National Center for Employee Ownership
12.15 – 13.00 Employee ownership education in major European
groups.
Many European groups have made significant developments in employee share ownership
since the late nineties. Over the years, employee share owners have
experienced dramatic stock market fluctuations.
With the participation of:
• Michael Masset, Share-based Plans Manager, Dexia Group
• Robert Scallon, President of FAST, Thales Group
14.30 – 16.00 Employee ownership training and education
in the USA
Five main organisations are supporting employee ownership development and education
in the USA. Round table with the Heads of all five main American organisations
in the field.
• Michael J. Keeling, President of the ESOP Association
• Corey Rosen, Executive Director of the National Center for
Employee Ownership (NCEO)
• Bill McIntyre, Director of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center
(OEOC)
• David Binns, Associate Director of the Beyster Institute for
Entrepreneurial Employee Ownership
• Chris Mackin, President of Ownership Associates, Inc.
16.15 – 17.30 Employee ownership training and education
in Spain
EOLE database shows clearly that Spain is the most active country after the
USA, regarding employee ownership training and education. Round table
with representatives of the three main Spanish organisations in the
field.
• Fred Freundlich, Professor, Mondragon Universidade
• Juan Ignacio Aizpurua, Executive Director, Mondragon Otalora
• Josetxo Hernandez, Director of the Spanish Confederation of
Employee-Owned Companies (CONFESAL)
17.30 – 18.00 Tullis Russell Group's business
game for employee ownership education
Tullis Russell Group is well known as the result of an employee
buyout in a successful Scottish leading papermaking and converting
group. They are now a wholly employee owned company, with some 1.200
employees. For their employee owners' education, they developed a specialised business game.
• Geoff Miller, Company Secretary and Secretary
to the Share Schemes of Tullis Russell Group
Evening Visit and evening dinner to the Belgian Center
of Comic Books
(from 19.00) Rue des Sables 20, 1000 - Brussels
Friday 17 June
9.30 – 10.15 Employee ownership training for corporate
governance in France.
The French Corporate Governance Institute has developed a dedicated
branch and training for employee share ownership.
• Pierre-Yves Gomez, Executive Director of the French Corporate
Governance Institute
10.15 – 11.00 Employee ownership training for co-operatives
in UK.
The Co-operative College has specialised training programmes for
employee ownership in the UK.
• Mervyn Wilson, Chief Executive of the Co-operative College.
11.30 – 13.00 Workshop 1: Training and education for
employee buyouts.
Employee buyouts are a typical situation for employee ownership. Many organisations
across the world are developing assistance and specialized consultancy.
Round table with representatives of some main organisations for employee
buyouts.
• David Erdal, Executive Director, Baxi Partnership (UK)
• Javier San José, Training Coordinator, ASLE - Basque Federation
of Employee-Owned Companies (sociedades laborales)
• Dan Bell, Program Coordinator of the Ohio Employee Ownership
Center (OEOC)
• Erkki Kangas, Executive Director, Sataosaajat Osuuskunta (Finland),
• Anthony Jensen, Executive Director, Ithaca Business Strategies
(Australia)
• Volkmar Hanf, Executive
Director, Hanf Unternehmensberatung (Germany)
Workshop
2: Presentation by Monidee Finance
Monidee Finance is a Netherlands company which developed
an open, flexible and web-enabled software – tOption
- dedicated to the management of employee share and option plans.
In addition to tOption, Monidee Services provides additional
services right up to the whole outsourcing of the management and administration
of share and option plans. These additional services, combined with
the flexibility of tOption, gives every company – be
it a multinational or non-stock exchange quoted company or a SME
– a suitable, efficient and cost-effective tool to manage employee
benefits.
• Hans Van Tol, CEO, Monidee Finance BV
• Paul Arens, Monidee Finance
BV
14.30 – 15.45 Workshop 4: Employee Ownership training
and education: common challenges – identical solutions?
This workshop will include a specific presentation about Germany,
with presentations on Mitbestimmung compared to employee ownership
(Mitbestimmung und Mitarbeiterbeteiligung), the German speakers being:
• Michael Lezius, Executive Director, AGP – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Partnerschaft in der Wirtschaft
• Heinrich Beyer, Director, MLP Finanzdienstleistung AG
Workshop
5: A solution to encourage learning institutions and other bodies
to develop Employee Ownership training and education?
Given the indications of the EOLE Programme, how encourage
training and education bodies to organize programmes for employee
ownership, at country level?
15.45 – 17.15 Round table of education professionals.
Reports of the workshops and conclusions.
• Bill McIntyre, Director, OEOC - Kent State University
• Erik Poutsma, Professor, University of Nijmegen
• Virginie Pérotin, Professor, University of Leeds
IN DEMONSTRATION DURING THE CONFERENCE
Thanks to Hewlett-Packard Belgium, a set of computers
will be at participants' disposal with some meaningful demonstrations:
•
CORPORATIA, interactive training game of the French Corporate Governance
Institute
• TULLIS RUSSELL GROUP's business game for employee ownership training
• EOLE DATABASE giving information on Employee Ownership learning & education
programmes across the world
• MONIDEE FINANCE SOFTWARE tOption,
probably the best web-enabled software in the world for the
management of employee ownership plans
• INTERACTIVE INTRODUCTION TO ESOPs, by the National Center for Employee Ownership
With the support of the
European Commission - Employment & Social Affairs
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