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Workplace Violence Minimizing

scene is a fictitious one but not many would think so. The scene has been played out all too often in the last few years as workp...

Ford Motor Company and Incidences of Harassment and Discrimination

EEOC Cases & Disposition We know that there have been cases that have gone to the EEOC and that huge settlements have been grante...

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. ...

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...

The Asbestos Situation

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

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...

Reasons for Preemployment Testing in the Workplace

success in the marketplace. One employer put it this way: "Even if the candidate has all the skills and is uniquely compatible wit...

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 Reich (1992) suggests that old concepts such as national product are no longer valid...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...

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...

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-...

Workplace Creative Thinking Development

free thinking environment where former constraints do not influence workplace behaviour, which is often the case ( Handy, 1993). ...

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...

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 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...

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WORKPLACE

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Diversity And The Workplace

nothing more than his appearance or her beliefs, and to condemn that same person because he or she abides by a wholly opposing app...

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...

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...