Tom Kochan: The Workforce

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Tom Kochan: The Workforce

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:08 AM PDT

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan
Photograph by Stu Rosner

From Harvard Magazine
An interview with Thomas A. Kochan, Bunker professor of management, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and co-director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research.
Harvard Magazine: You speak of a fundamental human-capital paradox in the way American employers and workers interact with each other.
Thomas Kochan: American corporations often say human resources are their most important asset. In our national discourse, everyone talks about jobs. Yet as a society we somehow tolerate persistent high unemployment, 30 years of stagnating wages and growing wage inequality, two decades of declining job satisfaction and loss of pension and retirement benefits, and continuous challenges from the consequences of unemployment on family life. If we really valued work and human resources, we would address these problems with the vigor required to solve them.
Read the full interview at Harvard Magazine Features

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