Profit at the bottom of the ladder : creating value by investing in your workforce / Jody Heymann, with Magda Barrera.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2010.Description: xii, 268 p ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781422123119 (trade : alk. paper)
- 1422123111
- Personnel management -- United States
- Employees -- United States
- Minimum wage -- United States
- Quality of work life -- United States
- Industrial management -- Social aspects -- United States
- Personnel management -- United States
- Employees -- United States
- Minimum wage -- United States
- Quality of life -- United States
- Management -- United States -- Social aspects
- 658.3 22
- HF5549.2.U5 H49 2010
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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.
Library Journal.
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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