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Great Place to Work® Awards
2005 Great Place to Work® Award Honorees
The Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc. honored 5 organizations during its third annual Great Place to Work® Conference, held April 20-22, 2005 in San Francisco, CA. The five honorees were selected this year with particular attention to a culture-specific practice, program, or collection of programs which exemplifies one of the five dimensions of the Great Place to Work® Model©: Credibility, Respect, Fairness, Pride and Camaraderie. Amy Lyman, co-founder and President of the Institute and Robert Levering, co-founder, presented the awards.
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Credibility
An employee's perceptions of management's communication practices, competence and integrity.
 Starbucks Corporation
Starbucks is recognized for its Mission Review program, which invites every Starbucks partner (employee) to comment on whether company decisions are consistent with the company’s Mission Statement and Guiding Principles. An active feedback mechanism is in place to ensure that the lines of communications remain open and accessible, guaranteeing the connection in intact between those who create and generate policies and those who actually carry them out.
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Respect
The support, collaboration and caring employees see expressed by management's actions toward them.
Analytical Graphics Inc.
Analytical Graphics provides extensive training and development programs for employees, considering employees’ knowledge the single most valuable asset. By identifying the personal and professional qualities and traits essential to their business, AGI creates programs that support their employees’ efforts to thrive in their industry. Employees have latitude to seek professional development opportunities at colleges, professional associations and conferences. Creating opportunities for employees to grow is the engine behind success.
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Fairness
The equity, impartiality and justice employees perceive in the workplace.
FedEx Corporation
FedEx Express is recognized for its Guaranteed Fair Treatment (GFT) Procedure and FedEx Ground for its RESPECT (Resolving Employee Situations and Problems Encourages Company-wide Trust) Program. While GFT is a process for complaint resolution, the RESPECT Program offers conflict resolution. Each is a three-step process that is ultimately taken to senior levels for resolution, and each is viewed to bring a high level of fairness to the organization.
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Pride
The feelings employees have toward their jobs, team or work group and the company.
Griffin Hospital
Griffin Hospital has implemented the Planetree patient-centered care model, subscribing to the philosophy that they can best serve patients and the community by providing the latest in medical technology in a healing, nurturing environment which encourages the patient’s involvement and participation. Griffin revolves around a mission to provide personalized, humanistic, consumer-driven health care. For employees, it means taking pride in the organization as if they own it. Employees are constantly reminded that their No. 1 priority is catering to patient needs.
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Camaraderie
The quality of the hospitality, intimacy and community within the workplace.
Hot Topic, Inc.
Hot Topic is recognized for its uniquely stimulating, creative work atmosphere where employees are encouraged to be themselves. Uniqueness and diversity of thought is celebrated throughout the company, in turn creating a culture dependent on the generation of new ideas, where producing a stimulating work environment for the individual employee is crucial. Input from employees about the culture is solicited on a regular basis and everyone is held accountable for upholding and contributing to this culture in which people are the top priority.
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"The diversity in the people of our company makes it great - at any location we have people from many different countries, races, religious preferences, sexual orientations, size and shapes. We all just naturally coalesce into one very unique and effective team. I wish it could be this way outside the company." |
Employee - Financial Services & Insurance
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