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LETTERS, Page 10Working Lean and Mean
Every manager should reflect on the points made in your special
report about the missing gung-ho spirit among American workers and
the ebbing loyalty to the corporation (BUSINESS, Sept. 11). Shrewd
bosses realize that employees who perceive that their security and
participation are aligned with the company's productivity and
profitability will take risks on the firm's behalf. While temporary
staffing has an important place, the concept that a manager can
"rent" a professional work force that is able to expand and
contract on demand does not recognize the time required to
cultivate an atmosphere of mutual support.
B. Kenneth Estabrook Jr.
Woodsboro, Md.
Don't assume that the "turmoil" being experienced by the
current work force is a negative thing. Maybe companies are finally
waking up to the needs of being competitive in the world
marketplace. If, to cure U.S. employees of complacency and make
American business viable again, a small amount of temporary
turbulence must be endured, so be it.
Mark Wilamowski, President
Mardon, Inc.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Your article reads like a chapter out of my past, but it fails
to mention the effect of career transition on family. At an outing
with my daughter's kindergarten class, a boy asked me, "Mr.
Hemingway, have you got a job yet? Sometimes Erin is very sad
because you don't have one."
Frank C. Hemingway
Federal Way, Wash.