Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce

by Jody Heymann

Most managers assume that surviving, especially in recessions, requires slashing wages, benefits, and other workforce expenses. And lowest-skilled workers are often viewed as the most expendable. In Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder, Jody Heymann overturns these assumptions. Drawing from thousands of interviews with employees from front line to C-suite at companies around the world, Heymann shows how enterprises have profited more by improving working...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1422123111
• ISBN13: 9781422123119
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"