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Profit at the bottom of the ladder : creating value by investing in your workforce / Jody Heymann, with Magda Barrera.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2010.Description: xii, 268 p ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781422123119 (trade : alk. paper)
  • 1422123111
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.3 22
LOC classification:
  • HF5549.2.U5 H49 2010
Contents:
Providing all employees with more than a living wage -- Finding ways to make scheduling flexibility feasible and profitable -- Increasing productivity and reliability by investing in health care -- Building assets: ensuring that the lowest-level employees are not left behind -- Offering training where it is valued the most -- Establishing career tracks for low-level employees to rise up the corporate ladder -- Engaging employees in the company's profits and their own -- Reaping returns from community investments -- Creating good working conditions throughout the supply chain -- Developing a blueprint for changing companies and lives.
Summary: Examines evidence that indicates companies can profit from investing in their least-skilled employees by offering better wages, flexible scheduling, health-care, profit sharing, training, and other benefits, and looks at strategies companies may use to implement such changes.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 658.3 HE PR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0040618

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-255) and index.

Providing all employees with more than a living wage -- Finding ways to make scheduling flexibility feasible and profitable -- Increasing productivity and reliability by investing in health care -- Building assets: ensuring that the lowest-level employees are not left behind -- Offering training where it is valued the most -- Establishing career tracks for low-level employees to rise up the corporate ladder -- Engaging employees in the company's profits and their own -- Reaping returns from community investments -- Creating good working conditions throughout the supply chain -- Developing a blueprint for changing companies and lives.

Library Journal, May 2010.

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Examines evidence that indicates companies can profit from investing in their least-skilled employees by offering better wages, flexible scheduling, health-care, profit sharing, training, and other benefits, and looks at strategies companies may use to implement such changes.

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