Does treating employees well hurt the bottom line?

In many cultures (mostly non-Western), top management denies basic employee rights or even basic human rights because they believe this is how they can grow and make profits. WRONG.

Companies on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For are "shining examples of a different way of doing business that puts to rest the old notion that treating employees well might hurt the bottom line." One example: the Marriott philosophy: "Take care of associates, and they will take care of the customers."

Consider the 12 companies that have made the Fortune list every year since they published the first in 1998 ... They're the top job creators ... They outperformed the S&P 500 index by a ratio of nearly 20 to 1 ... They're winners in the marketplace as well as in the workplace!

Source: Fortune, March 15, 2015