1.   For Beyster, employee ownership is an effective way to maintain control.

2.   Full employee ownership of shares is an unsettling prospect for those in the investment business.

3.   Believing that employee share ownership is an important contributor to employee involvement in the business, the Group has continued to extend its sharesave scheme internationally.

4.   And companies with sizable employee ownership often produce better results.

5.   But employee ownership has often made life harder for management.

6.   But for the moment, it looks like another experiment in employee ownership that is falling short of creating a new formula for running a business.

7.   But in some cases, employee ownership benefits neither the employees nor management.

8.   But others disagree that such a link between employee ownership and performance, if it exists, counts for much at large companies.

9.   But the US Airways pilots do not appear interested in employee ownership.

10.   Companies in financial difficulty could use them as a valuable chip, trading employee stock ownership for union concessions or wage givebacks from employees.