Nancy Henderson

Able!

How One Company's Extraordinary Workforce Changed the Way We Look at Disability Today

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In a time when companies are outsourcing abroad, Habitat International, a Tennessee-based carpet manufacturer, has managed to achieve superior levels of productivity at home, often two to three times greater than its competition. Habitat's business has grown enormously, with much of its new business coming from work outsourced to them by competitors who could not come close to matching its productivity.Habitat's secret: they hire the people no one else will.At Habitat three of every four workers have a physical or mental disability. They earn normal wages and are cross-trained on every job. They work harder, with less supervision, lower turno… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-935251-42-2
EAN: 9781935251422
Produktnummer: 36829389
Verlag: BenBella Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 263 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Nancy Henderson Wurst has written for Family Circle, The New York Times, Parade, and Women's Day. She has won two Print Journalism Equality, Dignity, and Independence Awards from Easter Seals. She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.David Morris is the CEO of Habitat International. He lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.