Sargento Foods employees show purpose and passion: Fifty years of hiring good people and treating them like family

Source: Human Resource Management International Digest, Volume 12, Number 7, 2004 , pp. 10-11(2)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Abstract:

Around 80 percent of workers say that their first step towards improving job performance has nothing to do with the job itself, but is based on how they feel about themselves. This is a lesson that has been taken to heart by Sargento Foods Inc. which, for the last 50 years, has remained loyal to the philosophy of its founder, Leonard Gentine Sr: "Hire good people and treat them like family."

Keywords: Commitment; Employee relations; Food industry; Involvement; Organizational culture; Sargento Foods

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09670730410563801

Publication date: 2004-12-01

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