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Five Overlooked Workplace Safety Hazards and Their Risks

Health Topics, 2008). These injuries typically occur when forklift trucks veer off loading docks, if a worker is struck by a fork...

Above the Glass Ceiling? A Comparison of Matched Samples of Female and Male Executives

months of leave (H4) Interest in international assignment (H5) Restrictions on international assignment (H5) Total work locations ...

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...

Schultz's FIRO-B Theory And Leadership: Trait Theory - Work Environment

and how he or she is perceived by others" (Muller, 2005) that inevitably allows managers and staff alike to align perceived impres...

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...

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...

Philosophy And Skepticism

including moral evil. Epicurus, by contrast, believed just the opposite and openly asserted how the gods have no sway over anyone...

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...

Smoking in Public Places

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

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...

Nursing Philosophy for Professional Practice

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

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...

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...

Prison: Keep Them Public Or Make Them Private?

wherewithal to actually decrease prison populations while at the same time increase community safety is found in the way public fa...

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 ...

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...

Diversity of Racism in the Workplace

and dynamics" should be openly discussed (Constantine and Sue, 2007, p. 142). The "general purpose of this study was to explore ...

Key Concepts of Organizational Design

2008, p. 143). Innovation has the opportunity to flow freely, though accountability can be more difficult than within more define...

Cameras and Surveillance in the Workplace

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

Foreign Policy Articles

the Secretary of State, among others. In other words, the "kind of behavior that permeates the group shapes the nature of the powe...

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 ...

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 ...

Application of Planning Elements

This report is applying certain parts of an article to a small company of 200 people. The topic is strategic planning. The article...

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 ...

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 ....

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...

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...

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 ...