This volume considers the determinants, developments, and outcomes of employee share ownership from the perspective of strategic human resource management. It examines the importance of the relationship between employee ownership with other human resource management practices and describes a contextual strategic human resource management model, in which human resource management strategy and practices are influenced by environmental pressures, requiring several “fits”: strategic, organizational, internal, personal, and environmental fit. Chapters address the rationale for employee ownership and strategic human resource management, determinants of employee share ownership, who participates in share plans and why, variations in the adoption of employee share ownership and stock option arrangements across countries, and differences in the adoption of share schemes in various countries.

• Sharing in the Company: Introduction to the VolumeEmployee Ownership and High-Performance Work Systems in ContextWhich Companies Adopt Sharing Arrangements and Why?Who Participates in Share Plans and Why?How Has Employee Share Ownership Evolved in the Global Context?Firm Foundations for Democracy? Worker Ownership and Control in Advanced Capitalism

This volume considers the determinants, developments, and outcomes of employee share ownership from the perspective of strategic human resource management. It examines the importance of the relationship between employee ownership with other human resource management practices and describes a contextual strategic human resource management model, in which human resource management strategy and practices are influenced by environmental pressures, requiring several “fits”: strategic, organizational, internal, personal, and environmental fit. Chapters address the rationale for employee ownership and strategic human resource management, determinants of employee share ownership, who participates in share plans and why, variations in the adoption of employee share ownership and stock option arrangements across countries, and differences in the adoption of share schemes in various countries.

• Sharing in the Company: Introduction to the VolumeEmployee Ownership and High-Performance Work Systems in ContextWhich Companies Adopt Sharing Arrangements and Why?Who Participates in Share Plans and Why?How Has Employee Share Ownership Evolved in the Global Context?Firm Foundations for Democracy? Worker Ownership and Control in Advanced Capitalism

This volume considers the determinants, developments, and outcomes of employee share ownership from the perspective of strategic human resource management. It examines the importance of the relationship between employee ownership with other human resource management practices and describes a contextual strategic human resource management model, in which human resource management strategy and practices are influenced by environmental pressures, requiring several “fits”: strategic, organizational, internal, personal, and environmental fit. Chapters address the rationale for employee ownership and strategic human resource management, determinants of employee share ownership, who participates in share plans and why, variations in the adoption of employee share ownership and stock option arrangements across countries, and differences in the adoption of share schemes in various countries.

• Sharing in the Company: Introduction to the VolumeEmployee Ownership and High-Performance Work Systems in ContextWhich Companies Adopt Sharing Arrangements and Why?Who Participates in Share Plans and Why?How Has Employee Share Ownership Evolved in the Global Context?Firm Foundations for Democracy? Worker Ownership and Control in Advanced Capitalism