Addressing his cabinet on Thursday morning, Prime Minister George Papandreou promised that the measures would not harm "social cohesion".
It also found that the change in policy was unlikely to harm unit cohesion and that the cost of providing transition-related care would be negligible.
In a widely reported note to senior PDL figures, Berlusconi said: "I would ask everyone not to supply any more declarations or interviews that can be manipulated to fuel the polemic and harm internal cohesion".
At the organisational level, diversity that is poorly managed can reduce staff morale and productivity, provoke conflict between employees and managers, and harm social cohesion (Kochan et al. 2003; Roberson and Kulik 2007; Wrench 2005).
Concerned about misinterpretation of his call to arms, Ayatollah Sistani's office subsequently qualified his statement by warning his supporters against "any behaviour that has a sectarian or a nationalist character that may harm the cohesion of the Iraqi people".
Mr Blunkett has subsequently admitted that immigration had harmed social "cohesion" in Sheffield, Mr Farage said.
Too great a distance between the two nations harms social cohesion and undermines our sense of solidarity, ultimately impoverishing us all.
Theresa May provoked a storm of protest after she claimed mass migration was harming social cohesion in Britain and announced plans to toughen rules on entitlement to asylum.
"The gap harms social cohesion - and without joining the moral panic about crime rates in the UK, it's noticeable that many countries with a fairer distribution of income have lower crime rates". Revenue raised by eliminating the domiciliary status loophole could be used to eliminate child poverty, the TUC argued.
Despite the worries, Australia, Canada, Israel and Britain ended their bans on gays in the military without harm to unit cohesion.
They warn that focussing on the deficit instead of job creation "will prolong the great recession, harm the social cohesion of the country, and continue inflicting unnecessary hardship on millions of Americans".
