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Workplace Performance and Motivational Factors

work-related behavior, as well as its form, intensity and duration (Ambrose et al, 1999). This definition takes into account envir...

Safety and Health

also places emphasis on the role of ongoing training and self improvement. Even if we look at commercial models for the way an org...

Workplace and Discrimination

would not be employed in the inner city schools systems because he was white. Or perhaps a male African American male may not be p...

Chicago Workplaces and Emergency Evacuations

building owners/managers in Chicago are no exception. However, there is uncertainty as to how such plans would work under crisis s...

Stress Related to Work

subconscious finds either threatening or challenging (Varhol, 2000). The bodys reaction to stress is a protective mechanism that...

Career Development and Family Changes

28 percent in 1999 but that number has also jumped to more than one-third of children today (Blundo, 1999). * Women married younge...

Making Positive HR Moves

known for their six-day work weeks, they have found that by cutting back hours they are saving a significant amount of money. Mit...

Contemporary Workplace Implications of Occupational Health and Safety Training

to worker perception of workplace safety. It can be contended, therefore, that employees will either refuse to work in an environ...

Technology's Impact on the Workplace

systems and other such devices. Enter any office and the visitor is most likely to see a computer on every desk. Technology is use...

Workplace and Abuses of the Internet

so new, companies are still coming to grips between the need to monitor employee use of the Internet and interfering with employee...

Harassment in the Workplace and Legal Issues

with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits harassment of employees based on their disabilities. The EEOC enforced these acts in additio...

Business Culture and Economy of Germany

This has not been helped with a switch to the euro, as the "euro-zone" nations have caps imposed on their budget deficits in order...

Case Study on Workplace Motivation

This is true for Anne. Here we may also argue that she has climbed up the hierarchy of needs as outlined by Maslow, but in staying...

Workplace Absenteeism Management

absenteeism, the need for management and control and will make recommendations as to how a company can save itself from the costly...

Professional Practice and Research Interview Summary

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

Scientific Management and Taylor's Theories

has impacted on mass production and the criticisms of it the starting point needs to be with the work of the founder; Frederick Ta...

Jobs and Stress

which stress management initiatives in the workplace can be measured. There are many causes of stress, in the wake of Septe...

Workplace and the Impact of Physical Appearance

Nixon had won. Those watching TV thought the handsome John F. Kennedy won" (Stossel, 2002, PG). Why do we think this happened? I...

Surveillance Objectives

the principal mode of rationalization and control in contemporary life, most particularly in the workplace. This theory stands in...

Two Models of Human Resources Management HRM; The Matching Model and the Resource Based Model

of assets. However, this may create some difficulties in processes such as re-engineering and union negotiations due to the lack o...

Daycare Facilities and the Workplace

be providing. When parents have to leave their young children in such circumstances, they often cannot give full attention ...

Organizational Handling Conflict

create an atmosphere that avoids the potential of such conflict. And if the conflict occurs, the wise manager will take steps to h...

Emergency Evacuation Plans and Chicago's Workplace

that this study is designed to address: 1. Chicago city requirements for emergency evacuation are more effective now than before t...

Workplace Random Drug Testing

expectation that an applicant has to privacy. Obviously, an employer cannot force a prospective employee to take a drug test, but ...

Hearing Loss That is Work Related

Work Related, 2002, See also Campaign to Prevent Noise-Induced Hearing Loss, 2002). Additionally, there are about 9 million worker...

Workplace Language and Shirley Brice Heath's Ways with Words

much character and attitude as a living breathing entity. For example, most modern hospitals have sophisticated technology which r...

Workplace Stereotyping and Discrimination

care needs for individuals in need of public welfare services. In the area where this office is located, a number of Hispanic peo...

'Manufactured Consent' and Michael Burawoy

effectiveness of Burawoys work. Definition of Manufacturing Consent Michael Burawoy, in his book entitled Manufacturing Co...

Contemporary Organization and Michel Foucault's Enhanced Panopticon Model

II. The Panopticon The Panopticon is an interesting model that had been created to foster the ideal setting for prison life. It ...

Workplace Sexual Harassment Court Decision Process

to the harassment, at least as it was defined in terms of the instances of sexual intercourse that had occurred on bank property. ...