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Workplace Prejudice and Transsexuals

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

OSHA Approved Fire Safety Program in the Workplace

have at least two ways in which people can escape a fire. That means there must be two doors that are explicitly used for the purp...

Workers, Workplace, and the Effects of Computer Technology

1980s computers were seen as the way of the future, however, they were not yet making an impact. The BBC Acorn computer, followed ...

Crisis Communication in the Workplace

either recanted their story or the FDA found it to be a hoax. This is now a classic case of excellent business communication with...

Professional and Nonprofessional Motivating Factors

of an intended outcome (Isaac, Zerbe and Pitt, 2001). In layman terms, if an individual wanted or expected to become a physician t...

Nurses and Stress

have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...

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 ...

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...

Employers Right of Surveillance over Employees

has been found to incorporate communication that may not yet have been opened or received, or those that have been deleted. The ...

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 ...

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WORKPLACE

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

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 ...

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...

IMPROVING THE WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT

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

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 Conflict And Personality

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Causes and Remedies of Discrimination in the Workplace

the management there should be clear motivations to undertake actions that will remedy the situation. The case study conce...

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...

Skydiving And Occupational Stress

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