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European Programme for Employee Ownership Learning & Education
Programme Européen de Formation et d'Education à l'Actionnariat Salarié

 

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

                Partners:

      

      

 

 

For more information :
Marc Mathieu
Secretary General
EFES - EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEE SHAREOWNERSHIP
FEAS - FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE L'ACTIONNARIAT SALARIE
Avenue Voltaire 135, B-1030 Brussels
Tel/fax: +32(0)2 242 64 30
marcmathieu@marcmathieu.be

 

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