英國第3大私營商，150年百貨連鎖商.....
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勞資共治的落實典範 從來沒有一家企業，展現了對員工如此高度的誠信。從來沒有一本企業勵志書籍，呈現了如此開闊的胸襟。 作者李卡多．塞姆勒──巴西塞氏企業執行長，雖然強調「關愛應來自人，不來自公司政策」、「任何人不應被『一家人』的論調所迷惑」，但是唯有他真正做到了「勞資共治」的理想：除非攸關存亡，所有政策、決定全體員工一律享有投票權；所有財務報表公告在布告欄上、年終獎金由員工...
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Ricardo Semler, author and business manager, is celebrated as a role model of a Chief Executive who breaks all the traditional rules and succeeds, massively. Semler eliminated what he called 'corporate oppression" from his company, Semco: time clocks, dress codes, security procedures, privileged office spaces and perks, they all went. There were to be no receptionists or secretaries. He set up 'factory committees' to run the plants, in an attempt to get more worker involvement and Semler guaranteed that no-one could befired while serving on the committees or for at least a year afterwards. Ricardo then introduced profit-sharing schemes for all the workers. The thought that they could directly influence their own pay encouraged the committees to look for savings and to question any procedures or layers of management that didn't seem to add value. Managers were hired and fired by their own employees. More than that, the units were now inventing new businesses for themselves. And so Semco grew, entirely due to the initiatives of its workers. The workers have unrestricted access to all corporate records and are taught how to read financial reports; they set their own wages and their own production quotas. When the number of people in a Semco unit hits the 100 to 200 mark it is split in two, like it or not. Semler lists six principles that guide his always experimental company: 1. don't increase business size unnecessarily 2. never stop being a start-up 3. don't be a nanny to your workers 4. let talent find its place 5. make decisions quickly and openly 6. partner promiscuously, you can't do it all yourself. In our next talk we meet someone very different. He has been called the world's most successful business academic. He is Michael Porter. | ||||||||||||||||
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| | Some useful business words:
celebratedwell-known, famous
role modela person whose behaviour is copied or is likely to be copied by others breaks all the rulessomebody or something which goes against an accepted principle which says how things are to be done time clocksmachines which record when a worker arrives for work and punches his card dress codes rules which tell workers what to wear on the workplace security procedures a set of actions necessary to protect an organization or its employees against violence, lawbreaking etc. perks extra items given by a company to workers in addition to their salaries (such as company cars, private health insurance etc.) plants large factories worker involvement action or direct connection on the part of the workers with something fired dimissed from a job profit-sharing schemes arrangements where workers get a share of the profits of the company they work for hired employed, given a job unrestricted access to be able to obtain, reach, see something without limits production quotas fixed amount of products which should be produced a start-up a new company just beginning to do business nanny a woman employed to take care of children in a family partner promiscuously to share business with lots of different people or organizations | | ||||||||||||||
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