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Teamwork and interpersonal communication are indispensable skills for business workers, and most companies are promoting diversity in teams to gain a competitive edge. Although findings suggest that diversity may not be as valuable as it seems for most teams, business workers need to manage diversity successfully. Therefore, the present authors tried to determine whether teams of business students with similar majors held perceptions about issues including conflict, leadership, and friendship that differed from those of mixed majors. Analyses of variance indicated that teams with similar majors expressed their ideas more freely and developed friendships more easily than did teams of mixed majors. (Contains 2 tables.)

Benefits and leave policies are important aspects of employment when employees attempt to balance career and family. These policies include salary, promotion, vacation, tuition reimbursement, sick leave, medical insurance, life insurance, maternity or paternity leave, elder-care leave, discriminatory leave, and company support and counseling. The authors examined the students' attitudes concerning benefits and leave policies in the workplace. A one-way analysis of variance revealed that vacation leave, sick leave, and family leave involving children were more important to women than to men. A Wilcoxon rank sum test ranked family leave as the Number 1 benefit for both men and women. (Contains 3 tables.)