Profit at the bottom of the ladder
Subtitle: creating value by investing in your workforce
By: Jody Heymann, with Magda Barerra.
Contributors: Barerra, Magda.
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781422123119
Subjects: Personnel management -- United States; Employees -- United States; Minimum wage -- United States; Quality of work life -- United States; Industrial management -- Social aspects -- United States
Table of contents: title: Providing all employees with more than a living wage; title: Finding ways to make scheduling flexibility feasible and profitable; title: Increasing productivity and reliability by investing in health care; title: Building assets: ensuring that the lowest-level employees are not left behind; title: Offering training where it is valued the most; title: Establishing career tracks for low-level employees to rise up the corporate ladder; title: Engaging employees in the company's profits and their own; title: Reaping returns from community investments; title: Creating good working conditions throughout the supply chain; title: Developing a blueprint for changing companies and lives.