Family home culture and management-employee relationships: Comparing two kibbutz factories

This study offers examples of how to adjust kibbutz industry to a changing capitalist environment, but maintain many of the home-like and friendly relationships between management and employees. Although both factories succeeded economically, the research was more interested in the social cost that the factories paid by abandoning the socialist tradition. Other kibbutz factories can infer how to maintain the high level of the traditional extended-family relations that had existed in pre-privatized kibbutz enterprises. While taking into consideration the special nature of kibbutz society, non-kibbutz factories can use some elements of this study to improve their own labor relations.