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Author Benbow, Linda B., 1956-

Title Sorting letters, sorting lives : delivering diversity in the United States Postal Service / Linda B. Benbow
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 237 p.)
Contents Diversity makes the USPS stronger, and weaker -- Work in an urban mail processing facility -- Integrated work areas -- Work in a resegregated postal facility -- Power, symbolic, and invisible tokens -- Sorting lives in the United States Postal Service
Summary Sorting Letters, Sorting Lives offers an examination of a workplace that for many years has employed an extraordinarily diverse workforce: the United States Postal Service. In the post-civil rights era, the Postal Service took a leading role in managing a diverse workforce, seeking to acknowledge and honor the different groups and cultures represented among its workforce. The USPS has constantly been looking for ways to motivate its employees, to create a sense of fairness and belonging, and to minimize interpersonal and inter-group conflicts. Linda Benbow examines the organizational culture a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject United States Postal Service -- Personnel management
SUBJECT United States Postal Service fast
Subject Diversity in the workplace -- United States -- Case studies
Postal service -- United States -- Employees -- Case studies
Letter mail handling -- United States -- Case studies
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
Diversity in the workplace
Letter mail handling
Personnel management
Postal service -- Employees
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021698218
ISBN 9780739134764
0739134760
1283084619
9781283084611
9786613084613
6613084611