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Good article on the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For. I too, have seen several companies on this list that I questioned as to how they ever got on the list!
One of the issues I consistently see in
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Best Companies to Work For
posted at 2/5/2001 7:17 AM EST
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Good article on the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For. I too, have seen several companies on this list that I questioned as to how they ever got on the list!
One of the issues I consistently see in these articles is how certain companies support work/family life. Realistically, in large corporations, this is all dependent upon the individual departments and their management. It usually does not pertain to the corporation as a whole! |
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Best Companies to Work For
posted at 2/6/2001 1:10 AM EST
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As someone who used to work for a company who made the list all four years, I agree with Brent that the "list" concept has questionable validity. In fact, companies who simply want to be on the list for PR reasons probably shouldn't try because they most likely will fall off the list faster than they got on it. However, it does do three things in my mind which far outweigh the validity/PR issues:
1) People talk about this stuff now ... not just HR people, not just consultants, but CEOs / line managers / people who read fortune -- culture, leadership, employer of choice concepts are now in the public domain -- that's good for the average employee who actually may see some improvement in their work / life balance, recognition systems, development opportunities, and so on. In fact, the company I used to work for got every employee involved in the solution in some way. For the record, they had put a set of standards and measurement tools in place many years before the first Fortune list came out ... PR driving the process, or a smart company who was doing the right thing and then leveraged the heck out of it? 2)Whether it works for everyone or not, companies are actually spending a significant amount of time measuring, surveying, and analyzing what makes other companies "great" as well as their own company. The key to this process is the measurement of what any given company thinks "great" is, getting a bunch of people involved in making it "greater", and then remeasuring every year to keep it going. 3) Gives the HR community a great opportunity to form a stronger connection with their businesses and CEOs -- Best Places to Work should reflect the business priorities and be lead from the top ... CEOs are talking to each other about the list, so why aren't more of the HR folks taking initiative and talking to their CEOs first? Pat Quirk CEO, Inverra |
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Best Companies to Work For
posted at 4/6/2001 7:32 PM EDT
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Pat, further to your question #3. The top 100 places to work may have great initiatives and cultures, but remember each one has its own leader.
I work in a company where the concept and culture is not actually present in our business unit. We have a CEO who does not support the concept, nor does he recognize the significance of HR. We are constantly having to justify our existance, and even have the VPs battling with us. We do take the initiative, my question is why doesn't our CEO listen? |
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