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The Diversity Of Diversity: Work Values Effects On Formative Team Processes, Jennifer Dose, Richard J. Klimoski Apr 1999

The Diversity Of Diversity: Work Values Effects On Formative Team Processes, Jennifer Dose, Richard J. Klimoski

Business Educator Scholarship

The benefits and drawbacks of homogeneity and heterogeneity for staffing work teams have been debated at length. The relevance of work values and work values similarity for effective team processes has been largely ignored, however. This article discusses the conditions under which work values and different work values types will impact early team processes and the implications of these relationships for staffing. Ways that work values similarity can mitigate against the negative effects of demographic diversity are discussed.


Putting The Amish To Work: Mennonites And The Amish Culture Market, 1950-1975, David Weaver-Zercher Mar 1999

Putting The Amish To Work: Mennonites And The Amish Culture Market, 1950-1975, David Weaver-Zercher

Bible & Religion Educator Scholarship

Analyzes Mennonite representations of the Amish during the third quarter of the twentieth century in the United States. Discussion on the culture of Amish and Mennonite communities in Pennsylavania; Views of Grant Stoltzfus, a Mennonite churchman, on the way Amish and Mennonite cultures are depicted by the mass media.