The search for community in the workplace

Article Abstract:

Vermont's small town communities, and the corporate community at Rhino Foods Inc, a 60-employee frozen dessert firm in Burlington, VT, illustrate some of the requirements for workplace community building. Building a real community requires all members to share the same values, have a common vision of the future, recognize the community's boundaries, share both power and responsibility, strive to develop themselves personally and protect themselves physiologically, develop training, conflict resolution and feedback mechanisms, and encourage friendship with other community members.

Human resource management, Work environment, Vermont, Frozen foods industry, Corporate culture, Community, Rhino Foods Inc.

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Managing diversity in the workplace

Article Abstract:

A diverse workforce is winning increased recognition by companies as one vital element of competing successfully in the present and the future. Some, such as Reebok, have made fortunes thanks to the benefits of new viewpoints. Others save money: Timberland, a boot and apparel maker, does all its executive training through City Year, a largely volunteer organization that brings together young people from many backgrounds. Managing that diversity is crucial to unlocking its benefits, but failing to do so can be fatal.

United States, Management, Workplace multiculturalism, Workplace diversity

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Women in the workplace

Article Abstract:

Large numbers of women are in the workplace in 1998. The balance of work and family is a delicate one. The power structure in the work world is changing, but is still in the hands of the old-boy network. Customs of the workplace, while not misogynistic, are based on workplace concerns, not personal concerns. Self-perpetuation is the first maxim of power. Power is not given up willingly.

Working women

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