Good Jobs Institute

Mark Dyck, Karen Bornarth, and many others at The Bread Bakers Guild of America have been leveraging the Good Jobs Strategy to enable bakeries of all sizes to thrive! Tune into Mark's podcast interview with our team to hear examples of how leaders at bakeries (and beyond) have used smart operational choices coupled with people investments to create value for customers, employees, and the business: https://lnkd.in/ef6Xu3gT

What makes a good job? Good Jobs Institute President Zeynep Ton explains the business case for good jobs and ways companies have implemented the Good Jobs Strategy on Financial Health Network's #EMERGEEverywhere podcast

GJI President Zeynep Ton explains that creating durable corporate growth "requires a decision-making process that takes into account the interconnectedness of the elements of complex business systems." Leaders at companies like Costco Wholesale approach growing the business by focusing on their core value to customers and pursuing a sustainable growth rate. Learn more below:

Great article from Massachusetts Institute of Technology that shares both why and how many companies have been adopting the good jobs strategy. "'At the end of the workshop, there’s some urgency among the leaders to change, and some alignment around the types of changes needed to get there,' Ton says. 'And then we work with companies to help them articulate why they need to improve frontline work, who needs to be involved, and what changes to make first.' Ton says a lot of the institute’s work revolves around emphasizing to companies that the strategy is a system and that individual changes, like raising pay, will not work in isolation."

We were thrilled for Good Jobs Institute Fellow Riddhima Sharma to close out the Jobs for the Future (JFF) #JobQualityAcademy, talking about how good jobs can help companies win with customers and be more competitive long term. Excited to see what these leaders can do to improve jobs and business performance!

"We help companies think about how you can strategically invest over time, so you can really support your teams to live a great life. And at the same time, how do you design work across the organization, so that every single day when they show up at work, they're doing work that matters." In case you missed it, our Executive Director Sarah Kalloch recently spoke at Fast Company's Innovation Festival with Rachel Korberg, Cofounder and Executive Director of the The Families and Workers Fund. Check out the interview below. https://lnkd.in/e3N5-aAS #operations #goodjobs #innovation

We're proud to share our latest HBR article highlighting the work of small food businesses. Check it out and learn more about how leaders at She Wolf Bakery, Tacombi, and Moe's Original BBQ are using cross-training as part of a system that improves performance and jobs. "Adding cross-training made the job worth more to the business and the higher pay made the additional responsibility and higher expectations worth it for employees."

"Deep care means paying workers enough so that they can have control over their lives. It means providing stable schedules so that they can have a sane life. It also means designing their work for humans, not for interchangeable parts." GJI President Zeynep Ton was recently interviewed on Talks at Goldman Sachs. Check out the full interview to learn more about the consequences of the status quo system of high employee turnover, barriers to the good jobs system, and the importance of discipline (in business and volleyball!)

Thanks to Next Big Idea Club, you can now listen to a 15 minute summary of the top 5 big ideas from The Case for Good Jobs, read by Zeynep Ton. 1. Low pay hurts workers and companies more than we think. 2. Higher pay doesn’t mean higher prices or lower profits. 3. Mental models that produce excellence. 4. Spreadsheets don’t tell the truth. 5. The risk of making system change is much lower than the risk of the status quo. https://lnkd.in/emvNE-Sq