Trust, pride and friendship make for good employers: Qualities should be highlighted in focus on great places to work

Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this paper is to examine characteristics of good employers that have often had inadequate emphasis in previous research.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper investigates three different ranking schemes, Fortune’s 100 Best Employers, Glassdoor.com’s Employees’ Choice Awards, and Careerbliss.com’s 50 Happiest Companies in America, to test several hypotheses.

Findings

Significant hallmarks of great places to work are an employer’s trustworthiness, employee pride and the camaraderie that should exist among workers.

Originality/value

While there are no insights or findings that will surprise readers, it widens the debate on factors that make for good employers as well as concluding with ideas for further research.

Citation

(2017), "Trust, pride and friendship make for good employers: Qualities should be highlighted in focus on great places to work", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 25 No. 1, pp. 25-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-07-2016-0113