Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance--And What We Can Do about It

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Book Overview

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop. In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062800922
• ISBN13: 9780062800923
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Harper Business
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"