If you have missed some Daily Bread, visit Archives to read recent issues. New Daily Bread is added to this page each business day except Friday of the current week. Good employers care about their employees. They take an interest in them, they provide good wage and benefit packages, they spend time and money developing their skills and they hold them accountable for performing at the level that is expected of them. In a competitive environment it is critical that employees have a high degree of comfort with their employer.
Turnover is very costly and being ambivolent about employees can lead to high levels of turnover.
Companies that truly care about their employees tend to have significantly lower rates of turnover and less internal turmoil. High performing organizations have a high level of discipline about how work gets done. It means doing things the right way on a consistent basis. It means working hard every hour of every day. And it means having a high level of accountability.