A Closer Look at the Top Companies

➜ Overall Rating: 86.2

Company size: Large

Satisfying, High-Performance Company (Overall): 9.0
Overall Job Satisfaction: 8.6
Company Reputation, Performance & Pride: 9.7
Supportive Employees & Team Spirit: 8.8

Fair & Open Work Environment: 8.3
Fair, Open Management Style: 7.8
Equal Opportunity to Succeed: 9.0
Personal Initiative, Shared Goals: 8.3

Personal Benefits (Overall): 8.6
Realistic Workload/Supportive Company: 8.1
Respect for Employee Personal Life: 9.2
Satisfying Benefits Package: 9.0

Among Reasons It Was Nominated:
• encourages personal/professional growth
• advancement opportunities
• flex time, summer hours
• team spirit
• pride in company’s success, and investment in technologies and talent to define the future of global learning

10 Columbia University Press
New York
www.Columbia.edu/cu/cup
The fourth-oldest university press in the United States. It currently publishes 150 new titles annually in the fields of history, religion, philosophy, international affairs, Asian studies, science, environmental sciences, neuroscience, paleobiology, literary studies, culinary history, film, political theory, economics, finance, New York City
interest and social work. Columbia University Press titles are sold around the world.

➜ Overall Rating: 86.1

Company size: Medium

Satisfying, High-Performance Company (Overall): 9.1
Overall Job Satisfaction: 9.0
Company Reputation, Performance & Pride: 9.2
Supportive Employees & Team Spirit: 9.1

Fair & Open Work Environment (Overall): 8.7
Fair, Open Management Style: 8.1
Equal Opportunity to Succeed: 9.6
Personal Initiative, Shared Goals: 8.6

Personal Benefits (Overall): 8.2
Realistic Workload/Supportive Company: 6.8
Respect for Employee Personal Life: 8.7
Satisfying Benefits Package: 8.7

Among Reasons It Was Nominated:
• pride in company mission
• pride in company’s brand, products and ability to attract top talent
• great working environment, minimal office politics

11 Lerner Publishing Group
Minneapolis, Minn.
www.LernerBooks.com
One of the nation’s largest independently owned children’s book publishers, with 3,500+ nonfiction and fiction titles in print, including photo-illustrated informational books; supplementary titles; picture books, chapter books and intermediate and young-adult novels. Its imprints include Lerner Publications, Millbrook Press, Carolrhoda Books, Graphic Universe, Twenty-First Century Books, ediciones Lerner and LernerClassroom.