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.