"American corporations often say human resources are their most important asset. In our national discourse, everyone talks about jobs. Yet as a society we somehow tolerate persistent high unemployment, 30 years of stagnating wages and growing wage inequality, two decades of declining job satisfaction and loss of pension and retirement benefits, and continuous challenges from the consequences of unemployment on family life. If we really valued work and human resources, we would address these problems with the vigor required to solve them."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Academics from the United StatesPsychologists from the United StatesBusiness theorists from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Thomas A. Kochan in: "An interview with Thomas A. Kochan," in: Harvard Magazine, Sept. 2012. online at harvardmagazine.com.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Kochan
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Thomas A. Kochan
10 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Thomas A. Kochan →
Related Quotes
"Our central argument is that industrial relations practices and outcomes are shaped by the interactions of environmen…"
"A critical aspect of the operation of the New Deal system was the long history of incremental change and resistance t…"
"The workplace changes being introduced jointly have two basic objectives: (1) to increase the participation and invol…"
"Unions are an essential part of the democratic fabric of society, but they are not necessarily desirable or acceptabl…"
"Employee participation cannot and will not be divorced from other human resource practices and organisational strateg…"
"The importance of top management commitment to organizational change is so well accepted that it is almost cliché to …"
"Democratically elected worker representatives cannot get away with symbolic or partially diffused innovations; they w…"
"Nearly fifty years ago... Douglas McGregor launched a debate over how to manage The Human Side of the Enterprise. By …"
"The approach that dominates organizational theory, teaching, and practice for most of the twentieth century looked at…"
"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."