Through Ownership, More Employees Are Pumping Up The Company
Mike Wilson, a manufacturing supervisor at Dallas-based specialty contractor TD Industries Inc., doesn't hesitate to chide a fellow employee who might be doing something that's wasting company money. To Wilson, it's personal. "That's my profit sharing you're getting into," says the 16-year veteran who started as a tradesman helper and is now among 85% of TDI's 1,300 "partners" who have invested their own money in the company's future.
At TDI, employee ownership is nothing new. The uniquely managed company, which has been in the Top 10 of Fortune magazine's 100 best companies to work for since the list debuted in 1998, has allowed employees to own a "piece of the rock" since 1952.