An employee stock ownership plan is an employee-owner program that provides a company's workforce with an ownership interest in the company. In an ESOP, companies provide their employees with stock ownership, often at no upfront cost to the employees. ESOP shares, however, are part of employees' remuneration for work performed. Shares are allocated to employees and may be held in an ESOP trust until the employee retires or leaves the company. The shares are then either bought back by the company
The Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) is a remedial action plan (the process of accepting or resolving a risk) which helps the agency to identify and assess information system security and privacy weaknesses, set priorities, and monitor progress toward mitigating the weaknesses.4 A
(plÄn) n. 1. An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective: a plan for improving math instruction. 2. A proposed or intended course of action: had no plans for the evening. 3. A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline: a seating plan; the plan of a story. 4. A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.