But Is It Yours? Ownership and Good Work.

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 08:30  -  11:00 

The Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street , SW1H 0AD

The event in detail

With the government's new Commission on Ownership now underway, notions of “ownership” are suddenly everywhere. To some, the focus on shareholder value is partially culpable for the financial crisis: they say a rival model of stakeholding offers better prospects for fairness and sustainability in business. Others want to use ownership to make public services more human in scale and more enterprising in practice. Some claim share ownership works to align the interests of workers and an organisation, delivering productivity gains and engagement. And others say ownership alone won’t work: ownership plus decision-making power makes the difference.

What is it with ownership? The Work Foundation was pleased to have contributions from three experts:

• Nick Isles, who presented his ideas on ownership as included in his new book, The Good Work Guide: How to Make Organisations Fairer and More Effective
• Will Hutton, executive vice chair of The Work Foundation and chairman of the government’s Commission on Ownership.
• Stephen Overell, associate director at The Work Foundation, who presented his findings on the links between good work and ownership.

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Further Information

• Download Nick Isles' presentation here
• Download Stephen Overell's presentation here

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