Ensuring Your Legacy: Succession Planning & Democratic Employee Ownership.
Year:
2016
Resource Library
The Democracy at Work Institute is building a comprehensive Resource Library that will include a wide range of materials, including academic papers, start-up toolkits, curriculum samples, actual documents from existing worker cooperatives, and more. The topic list below provides a map of the resources that will be available. We are also continuing to publish additional resources on a daily basis.
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Recently Added Resources
New Member Orientation Templates
Year:
2016
New members need basic training in how to own and operate their business cooperatively, but many workplaces don't have a standard curriculum or time to invent one from scratch. DAWI has created a set of templates to lay the groundwork for orienting new members. These templates can be used as-is for a general orientation, adapted by workplaces and developers to meet specific needs, or tailored by DAWI upon request. The topics are
A Learning and Training Tool for Understanding Worker Cooperative Finances
Author(s):
Lynn Pitman, Tyler Quist, and Anne Reynolds
Year:
2015
This learning and training tool has been developed for member education and board training about basic worker cooperative finance. It consists of a document and a set of linked spreadsheets that allow users to explore the relationship between the primary financial statements that are used for business reporting and decision-making.
Conflict Resolution
Author(s):
Esteban Kelly
Year:
2015
In this series, Esteban Kelly of the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA) outlines an powerful conflict resolution process that can be used effectively by cooperatives.