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Heymann, Jody, 1959-

Profit at the bottom of the ladder : creating value by investing in your workforce / Jody Heymann, with Magda Barrera. - Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, 2010. - xii, 268 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references 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.

9781422123119 (alk. paper)


Personnel management--United States.
Employees--United States.
Minimum wage--United States.
Quality of work life--United States.
Industrial management--Social aspects--United States.

HF5549.2.U5 / H49 2010

658.3 / H618

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