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employee stock ownership plans  

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  • Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) have become a popular mechanism to accomplish many economic organizational goals, including increasing worker motivation and company productivity. There has also been considerable debate over the function of ESOPs in the context of deindustrialization and labor-management conflict. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Employee Stock Ownership Plans]

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