From truck drivers to top managers, everyone goes through hours of training each year. And if partners want to go back to school, TDI foots the bill. I pay for your education, you pay for mine. We're partners now. According to the standards of Dr. Stephen Bloom, a Denver-based management and organizational psychologist who helps companies improve performance, TDI is doing all the right things.
People really know where they stand.
There's a clarity of expectation. There's not this huge hierarchy and bureaucracy. People feel they can talk to a senior person and have an impact. Companies must go beyond offering high salaries and perks to earn employees' loyalty, Bloom added. If none of those things are there, if there's no acknowledgment about their humanness, people will not feel respected or feel they can truly make a contribution.