I am trying to find a simple way to change the owner of a custom object record to the User name stored in a custom field. The custom object's sharing is set to PRIVATE and I want to ensure that new records have the proper OWNER even if someelse creates the record, say an admin person. There is a custom EMPLOYEE NAME field on the page layout which is a lookup on the USER table. Once the record is created, I just want to ensure that the EMPLOYEE NAME becomes the record OWNER as well. Hopefully something automatic when the record is created and saved.