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(More customer reviews)The article itself is acceptable but I only rated the item at one star because of the misinformation provided in the product details. Please note this caveat before you purchase this article. The actual length of the article is only two pages (the other 3 pages are a cover sheet and reprint purchasing info. The second aspect that is problematic is that no full bibliographic citation is provided for the item so I would hesitate before quoting it in an article. Finally, the date on this item is actually 1998, not May 2007 as suggested in the product detail above.
This is truly bad practice on the part of both the publisher and Amazon. Had they been more forthcoming with the facts, I would have rethought the purchase and I doubt I'll purchase anything from Amazon this way again.
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From 1980 to 1993, the number of bowlers grew by 10%, while league membership shrank by 40%. In his widely read 1994 essay, "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital," sociologist Robert Putnam used this statistic as a metaphor for civic disengagement. Putnam was writing about civic society, but his observations apply to business as well. The same erosion of social cohesion and trust occurring in society at large operates in the corporate sector--affecting the work environment, productivity, and profits. This article suggest that a company's ability to promote cohesion, community spirit, and mutual accountability depends entirely on its leaders, and reveals the five identifying hallmarks shared by genuinely trusting organizations.
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