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Diversity and Corporate Culture

of any kind (McGraw Hill, 2002, p. 229). These laws also cover the types of questions that may and may not be asked in the intervi...

Rationalization of Max Weber and Today's Workplace

the "culmination of a rationalization process driven forward by modern capitalism" (133). The answer is rather obvious. Capitalism...

Business Communication Skills Development

ideas and persuade as well. This is where interpersonal communication, or rather, communication between individuals (such as super...

Gendered Workplace and Women in Management Positions

in the workplace" (Craig, 1992, p. 299), as well as the upsurge in home workers required to meet the need of a growing industriali...

Workplace Freedom of Speech

logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The pr...

Criminal Prosecution and Safety in the Workplace

national markets developed to heighten the exploitation of American natural resources (Rosner, 2000). Coal and iron were in parti...

Health Promotion in the Workplace

newspapers, such as the Chicago Tribune, announced that it would apply a "monthly surcharge of $100 to family premiums" in cases w...

Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols (SWOT Analysis)

Nichols," 2008). This is a decided advantage for the corporate culture and camaraderie. * This firm contains the largest group of ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace

that if employers fail to make accommodations, that litigation can occur. In 2004, Armour argues, the Equal Employment Opportunit...

Health Promotion in the Workplace

(2008) reports about stress and the military and how counseling can help. Nussbaum (2007) points out that counseling is appropriat...

Smoking in Public Places

health risks. Children: The risk to children comes largely from secondhand smoke, derived from the tobacco products their parents...

Addressing Job Dissatisfaction and Turnover

Becker (1967) defended the use of the concept of human capital, a concept easily applied to the modernizing and industrializing co...

Organizational Communication

decisions, and their formal authority for doing so stems from the offices they hold. At the same time, informal approaches can als...

Metamorphosis

the company machine, and he is equally impotent in terms of his position in the family. He bears the full burden of supporting the...

Multicultural Communication; Potential Difficulties

effective it needs to be understood by the people whom the ideas are being communicated to. There is a communication failure when ...

Discrimination Against Women in the Workplace in the Twenty-First Century

the right to vote. During the twentieth century, equality was the issue and in fact, some claim it is still an important fight. Th...

Drug Testing in the Workplace

coming up "dirty" that the cost of the process is not effective (Holding, 2006). However, one must clearly stop and consider, wi...

Impact Of Intervention Techniques Used In Preventing Workplace Injuries And Illnesses

and disregard on the part of the employer. That Luther feared the same fatal outcome as Joe suffered is reason enough to understa...

Businesses Are Responsible for Workplace Violence

causes of different types of violence, workplace violence is attached to more specific causes. Zachary (2000) examines workplace ...

Cameras and Surveillance in the Workplace

the restrooms and the monitoring of electronic communications. Many employers, however, believe that they are fully justified in...

Teamwork, Stress and Organizational Behavior

in terms of goals and objectives (Weiss 1998). To clarify what is meant by "teams," Jon R. Katzenback and Douglas K. Smith offer t...

Organizational Changes; Analysis and Implementation

change is when they are both used in conjunction with each other. Theory E takes the hard approach; this is the task orientated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Identifying and Managing Workplace Conflicts

the impetus for a report on the cost-effectiveness of computerized systems that in turn are used as the basis for a change initiat...