Season 2: Serving Employees

Turning

Edgerton Gear

How do you transform a good-ol’-boys company culture into a healthy corporate community?
At Edgerton Gear, it took decades.  The road to transforming this family-owned business was long and hard.  By hiring for character and fostering kingdom-inspired values, Dave Hataj has built a blue-collar workplace that is incredibly productive and attractive to a new generation of skilled workers.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 5: Gender Equality
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

This film is related to the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 5: Gender Equality
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Season 1

Business on Purpose

Introduces the idea that the purpose of business, under God, is to serve.

Season 2

Serving Employees

Explores how faith shapes the way organizations engage with and manage employees.

Season 3

Serving Customers

Examines how faith informs the ways companies develop and maintain authentic relationships with customers.

Season 4

Serving the World

Considers how faith shapes the ways businesses serve communities and care for creation.

Season 5

Faithful Investing

Explores how faith informs investing and risk-taking. More broadly it looks at stewardship and the role of investors and fund managers in catalyzing transformation and contributing to shalom.

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