Samuel C. Johnson, the fatherly chairman of Johnson Wax, wants his employees to be happy, all 12,000 of them. Says he: "They're part of a global family." Thus he was dismayed on a trip last June to a subsidiary in Frimley Green, England, to discover that the 520 workers there felt like stepchildren. Johnson's solution: invite them all to the company headquarters in Racine, Wis., for a morale-boosting party.
So instead of going to work last week, 480 of the British employees got aboard a 747. During their 2½-day visit to the medium-size city (pop. 82,000), they toured the Waxdale...
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