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Spark, March 2010
Hardcover

SPARK
By: Frank Koller

How Old-Fashioned Values Drive A Twenty-First-Century Corporation: Lessons From Lincoln Electric's Unique Guaranteed Employment Program

PublicAffairs
March 2010
On Sale: February 23, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 1586487957
EAN: 9781586487959
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Veteran journalist Koller tells the story of how one unusual and profitable Fortune 1000 multinational company challenges the conventional wisdom shaping modern management's view of the workplace.

A century-old manufacturing company is taking a radically innovative approach to management with provocative implications for every business

While factories across the Midwest shutter their doors, Cleveland-based manufacturer Lincoln Electric has thrived for more than a century. In addition to being profitable and technologically innovative, through good times and bad, the company has fulfilled its unique promise of "guaranteed continuous employment." Workers are viewed as assets—not liabilities. Through flexible hours and job assignments, as well as a merit-based bonus system, Lincoln Electric's employment policies have proven healthy for the company's bottom line its employees and its shareholders.

In Spark, veteran journalist Frank Koller tells the story of how this unusual and profitable Fortune 1000 multinational company challenges the conventional wisdom shaping modern management's view of the workplace. Through insightful storytelling and extensive interviews with executives, workers, and leading business thinkers, Koller uses the Lincoln Electric example to illustrate how job security can inspire powerful growth and prosperity in our communities.

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