BREEAM Excellent: Business Value Vs Employee Morale

Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

Using survey data collected from senior corporate executives around the world I analyze how detection of bribery impacts firm competitiveness. The data suggest that the most significant impact is on employee morale, followed by business relations and reputation, and then regulatory relations. I find that who initiated the bribery act, how it was detected, and how the firm responded after detect...

Global corporate strategy and employee diversity in the UK plant of a German MNC

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight employee diversity at the workplace level in a MNC, and consider its impact upon management attempts to promote a global corporate culture. Design/methodology/approach – The investigation took the form of an ethnographic participant-observation study, which involved interviews and archival research plus a three-month period when the lead resea...

What's the hard return on employee wellness programs?

Employee wellness programs have often been viewed as a nice extra, not a strategic imperative. But the data demonstrate otherwise, according to Berry, of Texas A&M University; Mirabito, of Baylor University; and Baun, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Their research shows that the ROI on comprehensive, well-run employee wellness programs is impressive, sometimes as high as s...

Employee Morale during Downsizing

Why not cut pay ?

I interviewed over 300 business people, labor leaders, business consultants, and counselors of unemployed people, all in the Northeast of the United States, during the recession of the early 1990’s in order to learn why wages and salaries declined in only a few firms. Employers were reluctant to cut pay because they believed doing so would hurt employee morale, leading to lower productivity and...