workplace communities

English translation: corporate communities

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English term or phrase:	workplace communities
Selected answer:	corporate communities
Entered by:	humbird

13:46 Oct 8, 2004

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Human Resources

English term or phrase: workplace communities

My question is: does it refer to a "community of work" (i.e. a productive organisation) or to a community of people working in the same factory/office?

Thank you very much for your help-

"The aim is to support the productivity and competitiveness of companies and ***workplace communities*** and to promote employees’ needs relating to working hours, job satisfaction and welfare."

olgagarcia (X)

corporate communities

Explanation:
Word "community" has few definitions on dictionary. Emphasis is "collectiveness" as it is always about group, let it be a town, a country, or particular group of people share common interest in given area or field. In this my Oxford American Dic.'s defintion 2. offers a good description -- 2. [usu. with adj.] a group of people having a religion, race, profession, or other particular characteristic in common.
Now your question -- workplace communities. Workplace is where people work under the banner of an orgainization of all denominations.
It can be a governmental, or civilian organizations. Since you said "productivity and competitiveness of companies" it must be a civilian profit-seeking organization. But it is not necessary a vital importance to understand what you are questioning about.
Now, each company has different work ethics, corporate philosophy, corporate culture, etc. that forms "characteristics" as mentioned in my above dictionary quotation. A corporation is very much a community, like town of XXX and lawyer's or scientist's group of YYY.
It is because of this reason that Company A's employees would react differently than employees of Company B to same incident.

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community of people working at the same plant/factory/firm

Konstantin Kisin

corporate communities

humbird

support for non-traditional employee units

RHELLER

Discussion entries: 2

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6 mins confidence:

support for non-traditional employee units

Explanation:
the only thing I can think of is that not all employees work on-site. Perhaps they are referring to sub-groups of employees which are part of a unit and have their own issues and community structure.

For example, sales representatives travel all the time. Their "community" needs are slightly different than the other departments. Also, people who work in far-off, isolated areas such as loggers, petroleum sites, etc.

RHELLER
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4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

community of people working at the same plant/factory/firm

Explanation:
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Note added at 35 mins (2004-10-08 14:21:55 GMT)
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it can often mean a specifically organised community group, which is something like a trade union (with less powers) acting in the interest of employees (lobbying for better conditions, safety etc) as well as being a social club where workers from the same company can spend time together, socialising

Konstantin Kisin
United Kingdom
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English,

Russian

3 hrs confidence:

corporate communities

humbird
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English
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