The Leaders’ Choice
The next generation of business executives will face a choice: What kind of companies do they want to lead? Will they lead organizations that will treat most employees as costs to be minimized — or ones where both employees and the company prosper together?
Thomas A. Kochan
FALL 2015
Business leaders have a choice in how they compete. The popular way this choice has been framed is between a “high-road” and “low-road” option.1 High-road companies seek to compete through high productivity, innovation, and quality customer service that both require and support high wages and good job and career opportunities for employees. The low-road strategy seeks profits and shareholder returns by minimizing costs and controlling labor ...
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