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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...

Arguing in Favor of Unionizing and Legalizing Prostitution

and there is a large underground market for it. The sex industry continues to flourish despite the laws against prostitution. ...

The Workplace and Gender Inequality

realize. For example, a study revealed that about 80 percent of women middle-level managers leave their current position because o...

Employee Smoking and Demands to Quit By an Employer

whether they consume alcohol, whether they are married or single, the employer cannot dictate that an employee not smoke tobacco i...

Proposition for Human Resources Development

in employee skills often threatens an employees sense of importance within the existing business structure (Luthens et al, 1999). ...

The Asbestos Situation

exposure is associated with a number of serious medical problems, including pleural changes (plaques, thickening and effusion) and...

Equality and Cultural Change

of this period; the 1980s concern with corporate culture as a controlling and enabling mechanism; the subsequent fashion for outso...

Productivity and the Advantages of Breaks for Employees

In five pages this paper examines how productivity in the workplace is improved through employee breaks in a discussion of motivat...

UK Issues Regarding Human Resource Management

The UKs minimum wage has long existed between those who clung to the traditional economic theory as a means by which to avoid havi...

Workplace Prejudice and Transsexuals

signs remain at nearly every juncture that there still exists a strong sense of discrimination against transsexuals, especially in...

American Domestic Interests and the North American Free Trade Agreement

CREATION OF NAFTA NAFTA was created as a means by which North American trade and investment could be energized past the levels th...

Employee Empowerment and Workplace Motivation

another does not find motivating at all (Accel team, 2000). That is a fact of human nature. Since the 1940s, numerous theories re...

Workplace Practice and Group Behavior Research and Theory

Culture, in comparison, is an almost inherent aspect of human existence. Rather than being consciously derived to address needs a...

Motivation of Wages

pay structure is also suitable to be used as a motivational tool in order to achieve the best from their employees. The question t...

Comparing National Workplace Cultures of the U.S. and Japan

national culture then we can use examples which the student can expand upon. Hofstede identified five continuums which he used to ...

Texts on the Contemporary International Global Workplace

the important matter of the global workplace. Reich (1992) suggests that old concepts such as national product are no longer valid...

Public Sector and Challenges of Human Resources

that mandate all adults work. The old paradigm where there is a stay at home mom is no longer relevant. By and large, workers must...

Handling a Workplace Ethical Quandary

son, and the thing that irritated her the most was that Kilders knew it. He had her right where he wanted her. Surely, she could g...

Laborer Impacts of Changes to the Economy

and early 20th centuries that workers began believing that they, too, had rights. Throughout the prosperous 20s and into the Depre...

Handling Disputes in the Workplace

In seven pages handling conflict generated by either an acquisition or merger is examined by discussing collectivism, change resis...

Workplace Age Discrimination

protection are those who are "bona fide executives or in high policymaking positions and are at least 65 years of age, have held t...

Employee Compensation and Benefit Program Importance

programs, employee assistance programs and more are all important for the 21st century organization that truly understands and val...

Trade Unions from an Employer's Perspective

between the unions and the employers it has been argued was merely a symptom of the society in which the unions operated (Kessler-...

5 Motivation Theorists

as between their performance and outcome. Individuals evaluate the probabilities of these links. For example, what is the probab...

Workplace and Humanism

antagonism is addressed that determines how effective the outcome will ultimately be. While the working community utilizes a numb...

Performance Related Pay and Workplace Performance Management

the employee should be motivated to perform to a higher standard. Before we consider the impact that this has on motivation and ...

Nurses and Violence in the Workplace

Review Before focusing specifically on the impact of workplace violence on nurses, there are certain basic facts that should be u...

Gender and Employment Segregation

organizations. This pattern persists despite increasing proportions of women with educational credentials and their entry, especi...