CHAPTER 9

Employee Partnerships for Increased Profits

An essential partnership for any company is that between the company and its employees. Companies are looking to develop productive, high-quality, loyal employees, and employees want an enjoyable place to work with the opportunity to grow, be challenged, and make more money. Both the company and its employees want to be respected and to benefit from their collective success.

Unfortunately, many companies focus almost exclusively on making the quarterly numbers and cut head count, benefits, and other employee-related expenses, and then wonder why morale is low. The old saying “The beatings will continue until morale improves” is all too true in some companies. I remember seeing on TV that a ...

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