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MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES AND LEADERSHIP STYLES

Discusses leadership and motivational theories in the workplace. There are 4 sources listed in the bibliography of this 7-page pap...

Creating and Using Empowered Teams

self directing or self managing is more self explanatory, achieved where teams have a high level of discretion to assess their own...

Communications in the Army and Ethics in the Workplace

The writer discusses two separate but related topics: ethics in the workplace, and communications in the Army. There are two sourc...

Summary of a Legal Scenario Involving Sexual Harassment

Name an appellate court case where an employer was found liable for either quid pro quo or hostile environment sexual harassment. ...

Mediation of Conflicts in the Workplace

is extremely important in order to promote a happy and healthy work environment. Conflicts do crop up from time to time and it is ...

Employee Absenteeism as a Form of Negative Behavior

For example, if we look at the UK as an example. If we look at the figures produced by the CBI we see there is an upward trend in ...

Focusing on Process Involvement Rather than Individual Error in the Health Care Workplace

safety culture; hereafter "Trust thrives"). The culture is based on understanding and trust, and is further supported by a system ...

Islam in America's Workplace

(Lampman, 2001). Fourth is the Ramadan month-long period of fasting, which recreates the first communications between God and Muh...

Implementing High Involvement Work Practices

Using two example case studies the writer looks at the way in which high involvement workplace practices may be implemented in ord...

Psychology And The Workplace

the shop as the tailor himself whose entire life has been vested into it; while the kids know their food, clothing and home are th...

Workplace Conflict And Personality

vulnerable to myriad personality conflicts when such an eclectic collection of people work so differently toward the same objectiv...

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WORKPLACE

government of Ontario banned its employees from access to Facebook (Minken, 2007). Why? Two reasons: Derogatory comments about the...

MANAGING ABSENCES

hear when they pick up the phone or pull messages off their voice mail are the words "boss, Im not able to come in today because ....

Individual, Organizational and Technological Influences on the Adoption Rate of Technology in the Workplace

type and a personal cost benefit assessment. In all the categories many of the influences may be complex, often there are ...

Bullying in the Workplace

Vadim Ponorovsky. He is the owner of Paradous, a French bistro located in Manhattan (Zeldner, 2010). Ponorovsky sent an email to h...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

WORKPLACE DIVERSITY AND JOB SATISFACTION

comes to mind is "affirmative action." Along with affirmative action comes visions of quotas and dubious hiring practices to meet ...

COSTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE

the job tested positive for either alcohol or drugs. Small businesses suffer the most - another statistic from the Substanc...

GROUPS, TEAMS AND DIVERSITY

Discusses the difference between groups and teams, and points out the impact on workplace diversity on team dynamics. There are 4 ...

Women in the Workforce Pregnancy and Wage Discrimination

a consequence, one court case after another was being tried. The outcome of these cases resulted in a continuing evolution in the...

Office Settings: Groups vs. Teams

by placing individuals with similar interests or traits together (David, 2009). For example, a room full of accountants is simply ...

Workplace Concepts of Motivation

but perhaps in most, there is sufficiently investment in education, training, informal learning, health and just plain child reari...

Workplace and Loss of Decency

men and women in public places. This increasing informality is also present in the business world and it is straining business re...

Issue of Workplace Diversity

sites have multi-lingual capacity (Johnson-Reece, 2004). Its also imperative that when the company makes any decisions about thei...

Insurance Agencies and Sex Change Operations

(Zambito, 1995, p. C01). Gustons research has shown "that courts have forced insurance carriers to pay if the procedure is deemed...

Gender Bias and the Workplace

scores are as follows: * Expectation of Privilege 24 * Preference for Similarity 11 * Preference for Control 14 Based on th...

Workplace Obscene Language, Name Calling, and its Negative Impact

invite more personal discussions and verbal altercations are somewhat acceptable. Interestingly, on that show, a woman came on boa...

Women Receiving Unequal Pay in a White Collar Workplace

of female lawyers, bias against women remains entrenched in the legal profession and results in steep inequities of pay" (Gibelman...

Human Capital and its Intrinsic Value

the idea of human capital. Even motivation theories from people such as Taylor and Mayo and the way they thought the best value ma...

Workplace Ethical Dilemma

clear difference in power and authority. Charlie has been with the company for ten years and is now head of purchasing. He has a r...