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    Minimum Wages- Maximum Dignity: A Manager’S Guide to Affirming the Worth of All Employees
    Minimum Wages- Maximum Dignity: A Manager’S Guide to Affirming the Worth of All Employees
    Minimum Wages- Maximum Dignity: A Manager’S Guide to Affirming the Worth of All Employees
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    Minimum Wages- Maximum Dignity: A Manager’S Guide to Affirming the Worth of All Employees

    By Brother Herman Zaccarelli

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    A Managers Guide to Affi rming the Worth of All Employees
    is a book that will be greeted enthusiastically by managers of
    minimum-waged and other lower-paid workers in all businesses.
    The hardships these workers face are real. Yet in todays economy,
    increasing their wages is often not an option. But that does not mean
    their managers and supervisors are powerless to help these
    workers overcome many of their challenges.
    In this important work, Brother Herman Zaccarelli uses his years
    of management experience and keen insight into the human condition
    to suggest over 100 creative low-cost or no-cost actions managers
    can take to enhance their businesses, while at the same time
    transforming the lives of their employees by:
    Recognizing the Valuable Contribution of Lower-Waged Workers
    Affi rming the Dignity of Each Worker
    Assisting With Training and Education
    Improving Workers Health
    Enhancing the Lives of Workers Families
    The information in this book can radically alter the lives of lower-waged workers.
    Dont be surprised, however, if its insightful approach
    to affi rming the dignity of all workers makes an equally
    radical impact on your own view of life!
    L. Edwin Brown
    World Association of Chefs Societies
    Secretary General, Retired
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 17, 2011
    ISBN9781462013531
    Minimum Wages- Maximum Dignity: A Manager’S Guide to Affirming the Worth of All Employees
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    Brother Herman Zaccarelli

    Brother Herman Zaccarelli C.S.C. Brother Herman Zaccarelli C.S.C. received his Master of Science (M.S.) in Institutional Administration from St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida. His professional experience includes administrative appointments at King’s College, St. Mary’s College, The University of Minnesota (Crookston), and Purdue University. Brother Herman resides at the Holy Cross Residence, in Cocoa Beach, Florida and currently serves as Adjunct Professor at Barry University, Merritt Island, Florida Campus. He can be reached at BHZ411@Yahoo.com

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      Minimum Wages- Maximum Dignity - Brother Herman Zaccarelli

      Minimum Wages—

      Maximum Dignity

      A Manager’s Guide to Affirming the Worth of All Employees

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      Brother Herman Zaccarelli

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      Minimum Wages—Maximum Dignity

      A Manager’s Guide to Affirming the Worth of All Employees

      Copyright © 2011 by Brother Herman Zaccarelli.

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      Table of Contents

      Section 1. Recognizing the Valuable Contribution of Lower-waged Workers

      1. To Customers

      2. To Their Work Team

      3. To Their Supervisor

      4. To Their Community

      Section 2. Affirming the Dignity of Each Employee

      1. Concerning Economic Status

      2. Concerning Ethnicity

      3. Concerning Parenthood

      4. Concerning Diversity

      Section 3. Assisting With Training and Education

      1. Committing to On-the-Job Training

      2. Implementing On-the-Job Training and Education

      3. Creating Career Ladders

      4. Aiding in Off-Site Educational Opportunities

      Section 4. Improving Workers’ Health

      1. Recognizing the Impact of Health on Productivity

      2. Ensuring Safety on the Job

      3. Addressing Healthy Eating

      4. Accessing Public Assistance Programs

      Section 5. Enhancing the Lives of Workers’ Families

      1. Food Assistance

      2. Child Care (daycare) Assistance

      3. Accessing Housing Options

      4. Supporting Local School Systems

      DEDICATION

      Minimum Wages—Maximum Dignity: A Manager’s Guide To Affirming The Worth Of All Employees is dedicated to the thousands of hard-working hourly-paid workers I have come to know in my years of service to the hospitality and foodservice industries.

      This is the 60th Anniversary of taking my religious vows in the congregation of Holy Cross. I am extremely grateful to all of the Brothers and Priests who encouraged and sustained me through these very joyful years. This book is also for them.

      America’s working poor face real challenges in how they are viewed at work and often in how they view themselves. In most cases, lower-waged workers have little power to change the circumstances they encounter at work.

      So this book is most importantly dedicated to those managers who do have that power, and the desire, to transform the lives of their lower-waged employees for the better. My hope for them is that they have the understanding, the compassion, and most of all the courageous will… to do just that.

      Brother Herman Zaccarelli, C.S.C.

      Cocoa Beach, Florida

      FORWARD

      While it is a fact that the wage rates paid to workers in many lower-waged jobs are low and will likely remain low; it is also true that managers and supervisors in all segments of today’s economy have an extraordinary opportunity to demonstrate to these workers that their value is high.

      Managers and supervisors can have this impact because the economic world we live in is the direct result of our own actions; not the inevitability of mysterious market forces.

      In most cases, America’s low-wage workers have limited power to change their working conditions, but that limitation is not at all mysterious. Rather it is the direct result of a series of political, economic and corporate decisions made by real people. And real people have the ability to change the lives of lower-waged workers for the better; . . . if they choose to do so.

      In each of the 20 important sections contained in Minimum Wage—Maximum Dignity: A Manager’s Guide to Affirming the Worth of All Employees, Brother Herman points out a significant truth about the working poor… and about ourselves. He then clearly shows, using real-life work examples, how those truths directly affect lower-waged workers and the organizations that employ them.

      To meet the myriad challenges faced by lower-waged workers, over 100 practical low-cost or no-cost examples of positive, value-affirming actions that can be taken by managers and supervisors are presented in this book. To conclude each important section, Brother Herman clearly addresses the impact these affirming actions will have on lower-waged workers… and those organizations that employ them.

      Those who feel minimum-waged workers are unjustly paid will find no exhortations to radically alter these workers pay scales. Rather, the book focuses on what can be done now to radically alter these worker’s lives.

      Similarly, those who feel minimum-waged and lower-waged workers are already fairly paid may be surprised to discover the strong business case that can be made for treating them even more fairly.

      Perhaps the most magical power of Minimum Wages—Maximum Dignity: A Manager’s Guide to Affirming The Worth of All Employees, however, lies in its consistent message that those who have the desire, and the compassionate will, to positively transform the lives of their lower-waged workers will inevitably transform their own in the same powerful way.

      David K. Hayes, Ph.D. and Peggy A. Hayes

      Panda Professionals Hospitality Management and Training

      Okemos, MI

      INTRODUCTION

      Doing the Right Thing IS the Right Thing to Do

      This book was written to identify specific low-cost or no-cost steps that pragmatic, yet enlightened, employers can take to affirm the value and enhance the self-worth of their lower-waged employees.

      It is a reality of today’s economy that much of the work done each day is assigned to workers who have limited skills, limited education, or both. The lower pay of these workers reflects those limitations. It is essential to understand, however, that while their pay may be low, their importance, and the importance of their work, is very high.

      Food service workers, hotel room attendants, cashiers in retail stores, grocery store stockers, janitorial services workers, child care workers, office cleaners, lawn care providers, health care aides, and farm workers are just a few examples of the myriad groups of employees who daily perform tasks that are of critical significance to those they serve, as well as to the efficient operation of our economy and the betterment of all our lives.

      In the best of worlds, perhaps, these essential workers would immediately receive pay raises that would allow them to readily achieve the dreams they have for themselves and to meet the aspirations they have for their families. The reality for these workers, however, is that due to economic practicality most will not receive significant increases in pay. If they stay in their jobs they will, in many cases, remain in the same lower-scale pay ranges. Just or unjust; lower-waged workers are a fixture in the fabric of every nation’s

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