The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits
- ISBN-10
- 0544114442
- ISBN-13
- 9780544114449
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 229
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Zeynep Ton
Description
Explains how today's workers are a company's greatest asset and should be treated as such and discusses the flaws in the trend that sent service, manufacturing and retail sector jobs overseas in an effort to stay competitive through reduced wages and benefits. 25,000 first printing.
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