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Does it seem difficult to in your organization to create a real employee-supportive culture? Is it about as difficult as a retailer where competition is brutal, turnover is high and cost-cutting is fierce? Well check out Trader Joe’s, a supermarket where they have happy workers and thus happy customers. They use a combination of techniques that work for them:
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Worker multitasking
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Visible opportunities for advancement
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Effective communication
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Fun culture
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Screening
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Sense of people as brand
Still, they are careful with their money and have grown to a multi-billion dollar national chain. Unlike their competitors, they get good people and keep them.
If they can do it your organization can do it. You can create an environment in your organization - even your project – that appeals to high-performers and keeps them around. Just find that combination of things you can do and execute, rather than be paralyzed by the many obstacles in your way. Trader Joe’s managers could have gone to the dark side and been like Wal-Mart, but they went their own direction and have prospered. Follow their lead.
Posted on: November 05, 2007 09:53 PM |
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