Otherwise you are handicapping half of your workforce," he says.
The success of your business is clearly linked to the attitude of your workforce.
This has very serious implications for the quality of your workforce into the future," he said.
Allow your workforce to lend their business skills to a local community group or charity.
Your workforce becomes very nervous – and a nervous workforce is dramatically less productive and less innovative.
Or more unprofessional than allowing the majority of your workforce to become so disaffected that, yes, they nearly revolted.
She defended bonuses: "You either pay the going rate in an industry or your workforce walks off down the road".
"As your workforce matures," Von Haden says, "you have to be accommodating to keep those employed in your factories".
Stop talking and, instead, ask anyone who's in a minority in your workforce what they'd like to see happen.
"I don't know how you can impact the productivity of your workforce if you're not engaged in their well-being".
Professor Wayne Cascio of the University of Colorado has studied the relative costs and benefits of POPing your workforce.
