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at Nucor plants everyone wears green hard-hats except maintenance personnel who wear
yellow so that they can be easily spotted.
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This approach appears transferable and the motivational effects contagious. Iverson recalls
when Nucor purchased a plant and immediately sold the limousine and eliminated executive
parking spaces in favor of a first-come, first-serve system. Iverson greeted employees on their
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Nucor Corp. and the U.S. Steel Industry / 18
way into the plant and recalls one employee who parked in what was the boss's reserved spot and
commented that the simple changes in the parking system made him feel much better about the
company he worked for.
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Compensation & Bonus System Leadership by example can only induce so much behavior;
one of the more visible aspects of Nucor's culture is it's compensation system, particularly the
prominent bonus system. "Gonna make some money today?" is a common greeting on......

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