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Volume 10, Issue 7
1 December 1997
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Case Report| December 01 1997

GE Plastics builds teams out of rivals

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-8219
Print ISSN: 0962-2519
© MCB UP Limited
1997
Management Development Review (1997) 10 (7): 273–275.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000004453

GE Plastics, a division of the General Electric Co., came up with a simple yet powerful idea for teambuilding ‐ by putting its employees to work helping the community. Describes the scheme in detail.

Keywords: Community relations, Mergers and acquisitions, Plastics industry, Team building, Trust, USA
© MCB UP Limited
1997
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