Archived News – December 2014
Dec
22
2014
Dec. 22, 2014
A recent Baylor student found that employees who work at small, locally owned businesses have the highest level of loyalty to their employees. For rural workers, size and ownership of their company figure even more into their commitment than does job satisfaction. "It's an interesting time because of the shift toward big business and globalization, but there are still practical values of small and local businesses, including benefits to the community and to the individual, such as less income inequality, less population turnover, lower crime and more committed workers," said Katie Halbesleben, a doctoral student in Baylor’s department of sociology and lead author of the study published in the journal “Local Economy.” (Terry Goodrich, assistant director of Baylor Media Communications, covers research and faculty in the department of sociology and pitched this research to national and regional media in November.)
A recent Baylor student found that employees who work at small, locally owned businesses have the highest level of loyalty to their employees. For rural workers, size and ownership of their company figure even more into their commitment than does job satisfaction. "It's an interesting time because of the shift toward big business and globalization, but there are still practical values of small and local businesses, including benefits to the community and to the individual, such as less income inequality, less population turnover, lower crime and more committed workers," said Katie Halbesleben, a doctoral student in Baylor’s department of sociology and lead author of the study published in the journal “Local Economy.” (Terry Goodrich, assistant director of Baylor Media Communications, covers research and faculty in the department of sociology and pitched this research to national and regional media in November.)