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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 ...

Workplace Socialization Processes

In seven pages this report examines the workplace socialization processes and considers various approaches to ensure its success. ...

Workplace Changes

industry. By working diligently to achieve and maintain a sound and respected operation, Internet e-tailers can endeavor to be th...

5 Motivation Theorists

as between their performance and outcome. Individuals evaluate the probabilities of these links. For example, what is the probab...

Workplace and Humanism

antagonism is addressed that determines how effective the outcome will ultimately be. While the working community utilizes a numb...

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...

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...

Handling Disputes in the Workplace

In seven pages handling conflict generated by either an acquisition or merger is examined by discussing collectivism, change resis...

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...

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...

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 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). ...

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...

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...

United Kingdom's Ethnic Minorities and Management

concerns, we find that the unemployment rates for 1984-1995 indicate that in 1995 8% of whites were unemployed, 19% of non-whites...

Workplace Politics and Power

was little he could have done to avert the situation, short of signing his name to the report knowing that the equipment was fault...

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...

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...

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...