The Employee Voice
Webinar
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The speaker, David Craddock, discussed the importance of the employee voice, defining it as the empowerment of employees to contribute to the business and benefit from its success. He emphasized that while employee share ownership initiatives are typically employer-led, they should be seen as an invitation for employees to share in the company's returns. He highlighted the dual expression of the employee voice through voting rights attached to employee shares and participation voice, which involves the company embracing supportive human resource policies. He used Wedgwood as a case study to illustrate the effectiveness of compatible HR policies in supporting the employee voice. He also touched upon the implications of the Companies Act 2006, which requires directors to consider the interests of employees. He drew parallels from ancient Greece and the Judeo-Christian world to emphasize the importance of empowerment and partnership. He concluded by stressing that voting rights are a symbol of trust and that neglecting the employee voice can be detrimental to the company.
Background: In this 45-minute webinar, employee share schemes expert David Craddock will consider the empowerment of the employee voice through employee participation. His talk will include a case history and the principles developed to promote the wider involvement in the company. David’s deliberations will also take into consideration employee representation, workers’ groups and voting rights of employee shareholders.
There will be ample opportunity to put your questions and comments to David, which he will address during the final 20 minutes of the event.
Speaker:
David Craddock is an independent consultant specialising in employee share ownership and reward management. A recognised authority on the subject, he is the author of The Tolley’s Guide to Employee Share Schemes , along with many other essential books and courses. David’s clients range from major public limited companies with international considerations to smaller private companies where the requirements are for Enterprise Management Incentives, tax-unapproved share scheme arrangements and market-making employee share trust structures. David has successfully established employee share schemes and employee benefit arrangements worldwide and to date has travelled to over 30 countries to personally facilitate their introduction. He enhances his service through a long experience in share reconstructions and share valuation.
Chairman: Ian Harris, BA (Hons) FCA FBCS FIBC CMC, Managing Director, Z/Yen Group. Ian specialises in strategic planning and systematic performance improvement in both the civil society sector practice (which he leads) and also commercial sectors. Ian regularly leads award-winning work, such as Charityshare's partnership award, Ideal Hardware's HR Award for its rewards framework and the Marine Stewardship Council's Best Practice award for its strategic planning and governance review. He designed and manages Z/Yen’s employee incentives and share ownership programme. Ian is a former chair of the judging panel for the National Payroll Giving Awards and of BCS The Chartered Institute for IT's Ethics Group. His third book, The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions, written jointly with Michael Mainelli, won the Independent Publisher Book Awards Finance, Investment & Economics Gold Prize.
Speaker(s):
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David Craddock
Founder & Director
David Craddock Consultancy Services
Chairman:
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Ian Harris
Managing Director
Z/Yen Group Limited