We are excited to announce an upcoming research project on ESOP companies in the Kansas City metropolitan area exploring an important question: How can employee ownership support greater financial well-being for working people and the community?
Led by researchers from Rutgers University, with support from Erik Olsen, a professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, the study will examine how ESOPs may contribute to employees’ economic mobility.
The project will include a Zoom interview with a company leader, a short online employee survey, and, where feasible, an interview with one or more employees.
As leaders of ESOP companies in the Kansas City area, your participation would make an important contribution to this research. There is no cost involved for companies that participate, and employee respondents will have an opportunity to enter a drawing for gift cards.
Kansas City is an especially important place to conduct this research because of its unusually high concentration of ESOP companies. By learning directly from companies and employees across the region, we hope to bring greater national visibility to the Kansas City ESOP community and better understand the ways employee ownership can support workers’ economic mobility.
If you are a greater Kansas City metro area ESOP who is interested in participating, or would like more information regarding this project, please contact our Research Project Manager, Glenda Gracia-Rivera, directly at 848-932-0054, or ggrivera@rutgers.edu. Further information will be available in the coming weeks.
TEA note: The ESOP Association encourages eligible ESOP companies in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area to participate in this research.
