Management

Browse by management topics to learn about how and why employers create good jobs.

Management Topics

Compensation

Learn how companies use a range of compensation tools—from wages and health insurance to profit-sharing or tuition reimbursement—to attract and keep good employees.

Managing People

To create effective high-performing teams, businesses need to think about how they treat their workers—how they’re hired, how they’re offered opportunity for advancement, and how their daily work lives are managed.

Leadership

Leaders set direction, craft an inspiring vision, and provide employees with the tools and training to achieve objectives. As Dwight Eisenhower once put it, leadership is “the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

Teamwork

The concept of “teamwork” encompasses a number of aspects of work—from the formal formation of work teams to informal collaboration with colleagues. When structured well, with shared objectives and incentives, teamwork can be a boon to operational success—and to employee satisfaction.

Training

Investing in employee training is a key aspect of creating high-quality jobs.  Whether provided on the job or through internal, external, or online coursework, training can be a catalyst for solving business problems and achieving high performance.

Management Resources Library

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(Note: Many of the case studies you'll find here were developed by The Hitachi Foundation.)
  • Business Case Study

Mud Bay's Good Jobs Journey

This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washington, implemented a good jobs strategy by offering better wages and benefits and seeking to recoup the costs by increasing sales growth and...
  • Business Case Study

Managed By Q

This case study by Zeynep Ton and Cate Reavis explores growth strategy questions faced by Managed by Q, an on-demand office cleaning and maintenance startup whose founders sought to create a scalable business that treats employees well.
  • Business Case Study

"We Are Market Basket"

This MIT Sloan case, authored by Zeynep Ton, Thomas A. Kochan, and Cate Reavis, explores an unusual employee-led protest that took place at Market Basket, a New England-based supermarket chain, during the summer of 2014. Employees protested the firing of Market Basket's CEO because they...

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