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workplace culture  

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  • The idea of workplace culture gained prominence in the 1980s with the publication of In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman. The first business book ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list, Excellence was a study of what the 62 best-performing American companies at the time had in common. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Culture, Workplace]

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