Webinar — The Case for Good Jobs: Unlocking Productivity and Profits Through Employee Investment
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Are you struggling to find and retain talented workers? Do you want to provide good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth, but worry about the impact on your bottom line?
Join us for a webinar with Sarah Kalloch, Executive Director at the Good Jobs Institute (GJI). She will share powerful lessons drawn from GJI’s co-founder and MIT Sloan Professor Zeynep Ton’s book, The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone’s Work. Discover how the combination of good jobs and lean operations can drive higher productivity and competitiveness for your business.
In today’s tight labor markets, failing to provide good jobs can have dire consequences for your organization. Sarah Kalloch, an expert in the field, will guide you through the principles and practical strategies behind the Good Jobs Strategy. Learn from real-world examples of companies like Costco, QuikTrip, Sam’s Club and Quest Diagnostics that have successfully implemented this system to reduce turnover, improve productivity, enhance customer service, and build a long-term competitive advantage.
In this webinar, you will:
- Understand the benefits of investing in good jobs and how it positively impacts your company’s bottom line.
- Gain insights into the four operational choices that fuel a virtuous cycle of low turnover and high performance.
- Discover how strategic focus, operational simplification, standardization with empowerment, cross-training, and operating with slack can transform your business.
- Learn about the financial, competitive, and ethical advantages of implementing the Good Jobs Strategy.
- Explore practical tools and resources, such as the Good Jobs Scorecard and Good Jobs Calculator, to assess your company’s current performance and illustrate the financial benefits of a Good Jobs Strategy.
Sarah Kalloch
Executive Director, Good Jobs Institute
Sarah Kalloch is Executive Director of the Good Jobs Institute, whose mission is to help companies thrive by creating good jobs. She builds partnerships with companies looking to implement the Good Jobs Strategy and creates tools and resources to inspire any organization that wants to move from bad jobs to good jobs.
Sarah previously spent more than a decade in international development. At Oxfam America, she built partnerships to support international development legislation and socially responsible corporate policy. At Physicians for Human Rights, Sarah served on the executive management team, co-founding two health and human rights organizations in Uganda and Kenya and advocating for billions of dollars in HIV/AIDS and global health funding.
Sarah graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard. She received her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, where she studied sustainable operations and won the Seley Scholarship for leadership, community contribution, and academic achievement. She was a 2018-2019 Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow and has guest lectured on good jobs and sustainable operations in MIT Sloan’s Executive Education and MBA programs.
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