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Beyond the Last Blue Mountain a biography of JRD Tata BY R.M. LALA

Organization of the Book Summary

Early Life

Leadership

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Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata Summary

Early Life

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Birth and Early Years Summary

Early Life

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Early Career Summary

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Innovation Summary

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Air India Connection Summary

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Leadership Mantra Summary

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HR Perspective Summary

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Sustainability meaning?

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Most research has been focused on effects on physical rather than social environment

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Human dimension of sustainability remains unattended

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Examples are Google search, Walmart & British Petroluem

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There are direct and indirect effects of organization on human health and mortality

Broadening Dependent Variables: Organizational effects on Employee Mortality and Morbidity

Researches This

has shown that health functions as a kind of social ant

is true for organizations too

Health

status of the workforce is a particularly relevant indicator of human sustainability

Organizational

mortality

decisions have profound effects on human health and

Provisions of Health Insurance

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Almost all studies have shown that having health insurance affects health status e.g. Medicare

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Without health insurance people are less likely to obtain preventive screening tests too

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Health insurance also affects people’s economic well being

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A study has shown that between 1999 and 2009, worker contributions to health insurance s increased by 128% whereas companies proportion has decreased from 66% to 60%

The effects of Layoffs

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A study has found that layoffs are contagious, in the sense that it appears to model others’ layoff behavior

Work Hours and Work-Family Conflict 

There is extensive evidence of the harmful effects of long working hours and shift work on people’s health related behaviors

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One is 2-30 times more likely to experience a significant mental health problem if they experienced work family conflict

Work stress and Consequences of Job design 

This is measured by the amount of control people have over their work ie. more control shows less work stress

Why does human well being receive relatively short shrift?

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Human dimensions of sustainability in management literature are coupled with their connection to profits, cost or productivity

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Consequences of organizational actions on the physical environment are much more visible over effects of actions on people

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Another reason is the differential actions taken to make sustainability salient

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Difference between environment and human sustainability derives from the different actors in the two systems and the presumption of choice

What if we took Human Sustainability seriously? 

Just as a green company helps in brand building, a human sustainable company will attract and retain employees

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Same as in the case of environmental pollution, companies that do not focus on human sustainability impose externalities that others have to pay

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Human sustainability do pay off for companies, like companies at higher rank in the Great Place to Work Institute rankings perform better on stock market too

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