About SPARTA
Founded in 1979, SPARTA is a systems engineering and advanced technology company. We are dedicated to serving our nation's needs within our core business areas of strategic defense and offense systems, tactical weapons systems, space systems, and information systems. Our innovations, capabilities, and mastery in these areas have enhanced our reputation and our customers' confidence in our expertise.
We attribute much of our nationally recognized success to our broad-based employee ownership. We are an employee-owned company with the philosophy of rewarding individuals through salary, stock, and bonuses appropriate to their accomplishments. The SPARTA philosophy coupled with our commitment to excellence gives SPARTA the power to continue its upward growth despite challenging economic climates.
How we do business
The SPARTA Philosophy consists of a set of guiding principles, beliefs, and rules for conducting business. The SPARTA Philosophy was established shortly after the company was founded and continues to be the foundation for our operations and the basis for the design of our incentive program.
Our Philosophy
- Opportunity for a challenging and interesting work environment for all employees with rewards proportional to individual accomplishment and company success
- Empowerment of the individual employee to impact our success in business and share the wealth
- Participative management style and delegation of authority
- Flexibility in our policies and operating approach wherever possible to remove obstacles to individual productivity and innovation
- Recognition that people create success
- Incentive programs designed to provide substantial rewards for accomplishments through stock, bonuses, and salary increases
Our Rules for Conducting Business
- Integrity Our most important attribute
- Market based on performance Our motto: Pride in Performance™
- Loyalty and responsiveness to customers
- Leadership and Effective Communications
Our employee salaries and total bonus funds are consistent with our competitors. Individual salary increases are based on growth in personal capability and growth in responsibility. All employees are eligible for annual bonuses or spot bonuses during the year. Our bonus plan is unique in that our bonuses are widely distributed. Over the past 5 years, over 75% of our total bonus funds have been awarded to employees below the upper and middle management level.
The SPARTA stock plan is the most important element of our incentive program. Unlike stock plans in most corporations, our stock plan is purely an incentive program rather than a mechanism for raising cash for the company. Every full-time employee at SPARTA is eligible for owning stock of stock options with extra additional stock options awarded based on individual contributions to business success and profitability. In fact, over 95% of full-time employees are granted stock options each year.
SPARTA offers an attractive and competitive benefits program to full-time employees. For more information on our benefits, please e-mail benefits@sparta.com.
See our 2007 Company Description (2MB PDF)