For most people there is only two reasons to be in business. They either love what they do and they want to make money doing it. If someone claims they arent in business for the money they are either independently wealthy or not being honest with you. You may have heard people claim that if they didnt have bills to pay they would do the job for free. Theyre lying.
Many people honestly care about their family, their employees and the community in which they do business, but they also believe that profit is not a dirty word. They are providing a needed product or service and should expect to make enough of a profit from their activities to meet their financial obligations and have some left over for extras.
There are some employees who may believe the business exists solely to work them to death for poverty wages while the owner basks in the sun on the beach. If this is true, they need to find another job where the boss shares all of the profit with the employees or quit complaining. Very few bosses will take that kind of attitude and if you work for one like that, perhaps you should seek employment elsewhere.
In survey after survey employees rarely list...