2009 Small and Medium Best Places to Work Award Winners
Each year, the Great Place to Work® Institute produces various Best Companies to Work for lists in the U.S. including FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in America.
What Makes a Great Place to Work®?
At the heart of the institute’s definition of a great place to work - a place where employees "trust the people they work for, have pride in what they do, and enjoy the people they work with" - is the idea that a great workplace is measured by the quality of the three, interconnected relationships that exist there:
- The relationship between employees and management.
- The relationship between employees and their jobs/company.
- The relationship between employees and other employees.
Enhancing the Workplace Brings in Results including:
- Receive more qualified job applications .
- Experience a lower level of turnover.
- Experience reductions in health care costs.
- Enjoy higher levels of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
- Foster greater innovation, creativity and risk taking.
- Benefit from higher productivity and profitability.
Best Companies Outperform Their Peers
When you invest in your people, you invest in your organization's success. A comprehensive review by the Department of Labor of more than 100 studies that examined the link between progressive people practices and improved bottom line results concluded that:
- There is a positive relationship between training, motivating, and empowering employees and improvements in productivity, employee satisfaction and financial performance.
- When developing and implementing a people strategy with progressive people practices, a combination of practices is more effective than a single practice
- The impact of progressive people practices is greater over the long term (3 plus years), indicating that practices need to be integrated into the work environment to provide benefits
Fortune "100 Best" vs Stock Market 1998-2008
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