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Women's Struggle in the Workplace

were once again going to work for their country (not for themselves). It was during this war that women started working in the arm...

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. ...

Injuries Related to Computer Work

How might one tell if a condition is work-related? In determining whether or not an MSD is related to work, it is important to exa...

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...

Designing a Research Framework

Cohen- Hoberman Inventory of Physical Symptoms (CHIPS) (Cohen and Hoberman 1983), this is a scale where there are the symptoms of ...

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 ...

Conflict and Resolution

is based on performance measures. This is leading to arguments, with the day shift manager accusing the night shift manager of und...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WORKPLACE

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Workplace Conflict And Personality

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

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 BULLYING AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

the boss was just teasing. But Ken believed the comments, as innocuous as they were, had malicious intent. Ken is probably...

IMPROVING THE WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT

of the corporate world awhile to realize the connection between a workplace environment, job production and ultimately, the bottom...

Skydiving And Occupational Stress

illustrated in the simulation, Maslows theory as employee motivation could be used to increase productivity. Maslow, who believed...

Leadership in the Workplace

behaviour. The final style is non-directive, this is also known as a Laissez Faire styles which is indirect and involves deferring...

Workplace Diversity Management

example is a social norm that - while not mandated by any written law - is an unbreakable code by which people are expected to abi...

IT Support in the Workplace

newer or less experience members staff, where there is a supportive culture this has two potential ways of providing IT support. T...

Protecting People from Workplace Violence

Of course, some may think that such legal tactics go too far. After all, a violent workplace offender should be responsible for hi...