This year at the Beyster Symposium, Carole Leslie of Ownership Associates UK and Rick Van Doel a Louis O. Kelso Fellow, President of Performance Validation and the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership co-presented a session on Employee Share Ownership in Scotland.  The presentation discussed current events/trends in Scottish Employee Owned Trusts (EOTs) and examined the level of Stewardship in these EOTs compared to a US ESOP benchmark and a benchmark of secondary data of non-employee owned supervisors from US and Australian companies.

About the Beyster Symposium: The purpose of the annual symposium is to study broad-based forms of capital ownership and capital income such as employee stock ownership, equity compensation, employee ownership trusts,
profit sharing, gain sharing, and worker cooperatives. The workshop also explores approaches to broadened citizen capital ownership through universal capital accounts, “second income,” and dividend funds for citizens in the United States. The workshop provides an opportunity for scholars to present research in progress, receive mentoring and feedback, work on joint research projects and publications, and meet foundation officials, government policymakers, and publishers interested in this scholarship. The workshop convenes the Fellows of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labor Relations.