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Fundamentals of Management, 11/e
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Fundamentals of Management, 11/e

by Stephen P. Robbins, Mary A. Coulter, David A. De Cenzo
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
107h 32m
English
Pearson
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One for the Money... Topic: Money and motivation

Does money buy happiness? Several of the 120 employees at Gravity Payments, a credit card processing company based in Seattle, are about to find out.78

The company’s founder, Dan Price, made the news in the spring of 2015 when he decided to bump up the salary of 70 employees to a new “minimum wage” of $70,000. Now, everyone in the company will be making at least $70,000. Some employees at the company, where the average salary was $48,000, doubled their pay, and others got a nice salary increase—probably enough, you’d think, for employees to be pretty happy about!

Why did Price do it? He said that he had been thinking about employee pay for a while, especially after ...

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ISBN: 9780135175156