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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been at Cox's side for the entire decade, says, "Pitchers are cared for here." Other teams, he says, "blame their pitchers--'Oh, we lost it on our pitching.' Those are the teams that won't be in a World Series anytime soon." Seven of the past eight National League Cy Young Awards sit on Atlanta mantelpieces, which is not only unprecedented but nearly unfair...
...those cases, Coleman suggests that a company make a rigid schedule more appealing by offering an attractive trade-off. For companies such as Corning and Goodyear, his consulting firm has created schedules that include 10 to 20 weeks of time off each year or that offer a seven- or eight-day break a month. Another way to make dismal shifts more appealing is to pay better. Coleman has found that many nightworkers will accept a difficult schedule if they can also work predictable overtime hours. "They could have a schedule," says Coleman, "with built-in overtime that rewards them with...
Even more than aiming to attract talent, executives say they're focused on the bottom line. "Our investment is in keeping health-care costs down," says D'Ann Whitehead, preventive-health-services manager at Chevron. A study by the MEDSTAT Group consulting firm found that over the past eight years, Chevron had held medical expenses flat and slashed worker sick days by using everything from massage to smoking restrictions...
...family who came up with the innovative sales strategy. After joining the family business in 1979, Gold, 39, attended a home-sales party for a line of clothing and decided erotic goods could be sold to women the same way. She was soon running Ann Summers. Gold began with eight women "party planners" and now employs more than 7,500 people in that role. (Of her 332 full-time staff members and executives, 95% are women.) Each year 2.3 million women attend Ann Summers parties...
...their employees directly, says Stephanie Pronk, a health-promotion expert for William M. Mercer consulting company. "If I see my doctor for five or 10 minutes a couple of times a year, there's not a lot of opportunity to work with me. The worksite has the person captive eight to 10 hours...