Making the Case for Good Jobs

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Workplace Culture, Social Sciences, Management, Work, Culture, Business, Science

4.7 • 991 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Zeynep Ton is the author of the Good Jobs Strategy - which holds the honour of being the book I refer to the most when it comes to talking about work. In that book she set about making the case for firms to create good jobs for their employees, not just for the moral reason but because it was a route to faster growth.

Now she returns with a new book, The Case for Good Jobs, which not only explains the reasoning for creating better working conditions for workers, but also how any firm can set about doing it. At the heart of the discussion is a recognition that workers want to do a good job - and often find obstacles in their way.

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0:27.7	Registered reference number 900846. This is a Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a podcast about workplace culture, psychology and life.
0:43.0	Today's episode is a return visit of a former guest.
0:46.0	Seinepton is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and published the book
0:52.1	The Good Job Strategy about nine years ago.
0:55.3	The book was a really deep exploration of an interesting trend that she had observed while
1:01.6	effectively studying supply chains and legitimate. that she'd observed that the most profitable organizations that she was
1:09.6	witnessing seemed to be the ones that put employee experience and creating good jobs right at the heart of their strategy.
1:17.0	The book proved to be incredibly influential.
1:20.0	She had a whole load of different retail stores contacting her and in fact she set up the
1:27.2	good jobs institute as a means of trying to scale it, of trying to bring this approach to impact 10 million jobs.
1:38.0	Her new book, The Case for Good Jobs,
1:40.0	goes a stage further.
1:41.0	She confesses in the book that someone came to her after she'd
1:46.0	published the Good Job Strategy and asked how they would set about implementing it and she said,
1:52.1	I don't know. she knew that the end state of
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